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



Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>>>"Shaleh" == Shaleh  <shaleh@livenet.net> writes:

>  Shaleh> Ok.  I have rebooted my machine and run dselect/apt.  The reboot was
>  Shaleh> clean -- no problems with sh == ash.  However after a successful install
>  Shaleh> by the apt-dselect method I get this: "read: arg count" exit status 2. 
>  Shaleh> So apt somewhere uses a bashism it appears.

> 	Or ash is not POSIX compliant. One can't tell which is the
>  case without further investigation.

In this case ash is POSIX complaint.  The offending script is obviously doing
a

read

which is not defined by POSIX.

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