Re: ash vs. bash

[miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)]

In article <cistron.v0420550db3b9aaed0407@[206.163.71.146]>,
Joel Klecker  <jk@espy.org> wrote:
>At 02:37 +0100 1999-07-20, Julian Gilbey wrote:
>>But only if you're going to rewrite essential system scripts such as
>>/etc/init.d/rc without using bash.
>
>Where's the alleged bashism in /etc/init.d/rc? I don't see one. 
>No,${i#/etc/rc$runlevel.d/S[0-9][0-9]} is not a bashism.

I think the #! /bin/bash at the top of /etc/init.d/rc stems from
a time when either there was a bashism in that script, or there
was a valid POSIX contruct inthere which ash wouldn't grok

I already fixed it quite some time ago:

sysvinit (2.75-2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fixes bugs:
    #22965: rcS is not sh independent

 -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Tue,  2 Jun 1998 22:43:01 +0200

Mike.
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