On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 11:31 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [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. This is an excellent example of doing the wrong thing, in my opinion. Why not fix the bash bug instead?? Thomas
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