Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> wrote: > This sounds fair enough. I haven't read the source in sufficient > detail, so it may be that there isn't actually a problem, but I'd > really rather someone else checked it out. I just ran a test under strace, and the behavior of update-alternatives looks completely safe to me. I don't see any way for it to make /bin/sh unavailable. -- Raul