Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 11:10:52PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:
> So why not just specify all maintainer scripts just use
> /bin/bash? I am not sure. Perhaps because allowing scripts to specify
> /bin/sh would allow then to be sped up a trifle when /bin/sh is a
> nimbler shell? Is this worth the complexity? we speed up install
> times of packages a wee bit at the expense of a much more complicated
> policy document?
I think it's more about boot speed than installation speed... You can
gain several seconds by using something else than bash for init.d
scripts.
That's one of the first things people did to speed up their boot time.
Mike
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