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Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy



On Nov 12, Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:

>         One thing I see happening is that replacing bash as /bin/sh
>  might make script startup ties a bit faster, at the expense of  soe
>  of the built in facilities and extensions present in bash.
It will make almost every script run faster, and this is noticeable e.g.
with autoconf scripts.

>         It would, at one fell swoop, solve the problem Thomas hinted
>  at before, about our specification allowing shell to randomly shadow
>  other commands on the system.
There are no real problems in practice nowadays, and bashisms in scripts
are very rare.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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