Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two
[Thomas Bushnell]
> I'm interested in why we should care at all. Perl is a far bigger space
> hog than bash.
Debian Edu had to switch /bin/sh from bash to dash to get shutdown to
umount /usr/ when we use libnss-ldap (bug #159771). Bash loads user
information using nss when it starts, and thus loads the shared ldap
library from /usr/ on invocation. This make it unusable in a system
with LDAP users.
Switching to dash as /bin/sh gave us a nice surprise with reduced
memory consumption and faster boots as well, but that was not the
reason why we switched.
Friendly,
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Petter Reinholdtsen
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