Re: Several reasons why debian should not use bash for /bin/sh

To: gsstark@mit.edu (Gregory S. Stark)
Cc: cdulrich@ucdavis.edu (Chris Ulrich), debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Several reasons why debian should not use bash for /bin/sh
From: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 30 Jul 1998 22:29:36 -0500
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In-reply-to: gsstark@mit.edu's message of "30 Jul 1998 22:05:16 -0400"
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gsstark@mit.edu (Gregory S. Stark) writes:

> I would like to see ash made the default shell for slink while it's
> in unstable. This would help avoid people accidentally using
> bashisms and would have a lot more developers checking for bugs.

Or alternately, if we could get bash to be stricter when invoked as
/bin/sh...

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