Re: what options do we have was Re: POSIX shell; bash ash pdksh & /bin/sh
> have not packaged yet? A slim /bin/sh would be nice. I currently use
> ash and am happy with the change. cron scripts and boot time seems
> better.
I'll agree that it's good to have a POSIX-compliant shell around for the
sake of compatibility, but who says we can't use ash as /bin/sh and just
keep bash around for compatibility? Does the posix standard state that
the posix-compliant shell must be accessable via /bin/sh? It'd be nice if
the standard let you call the shell /bin/posixsh or something so that if
you absolutely needed posix features for whatever script you were writing
you could use #!/bin/posixsh ...
Alternatively, can we add posixisms to ash? Or talk the upstream people
into it?
Will
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