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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