On Sep 25, 2014 9:36 PM, "Russ Allbery" <rra@debian.org> wrote:
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> Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> writes:
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> > Since I’m pretty sure we haven’t uncovered all of bash’s “features”,
> > wouldn’t it be a good opportunity to make a release goal of killing all
> > scripts with a #!/bin/bash shebang?
>
> That may be overkill, but I will say that I'm feeling *extremely* grateful
> the last few days that we pushed forward with switching /bin/sh to dash,
> even though some folks thought this was a bad idea. Having the shell used
> by system() and popen() be as simple as possible turns out to be rather
> important.
>
In that case, I'd think busybox's sh is *much* more minimalist. Why dash over busybox?