Re: /bin/sh vs. /bin/bash

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Subject: Re: /bin/sh vs. /bin/bash
From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 10:41:57 +1000
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 19980826141239.A2199@crh3019.urh.uiuc.edu>; from the lone gunman on Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 02:12:39PM -0500
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On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 02:12:39PM -0500, the lone gunman wrote:
> I've heard of folks getting faster boot times when they link /bin/sh
> to /bin/ash instead of bash.

Are faster boot times an issue even worth thinking about?

One of my boxes takes ages to boot (it has a soundblaster-type CD-ROM
drive and the driver for that has a long initialization time) but once it's
up, it stays up.

Hamish
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