Re: /bin/bash -> /bin/sh

To: epg@pobox.com (Eric Gillespie, Jr.)
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: /bin/bash -> /bin/sh
From: shaleh@clifford.livenet.net
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 15:15:39 -0400 (EDT)
Message-id: <[🔎] 199905251915.PAA09917@clifford.livenet.net>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 19990524021105.B6113@dethstar> from "Eric Gillespie, Jr." at May 24, 99 02:11:05 am

> 
> This is not a good idea. Ash is Bourne-compatible, but not POSIX, which
> bash is. That's why bash is used as sh. Install the bash source and look
> in the tests/ directory. Run the file posix.tests with bash, and it
> passes every test. Ash fails 8 of the tests.
> 

Can you be specific and point me to what fails.  if it is a matter of making
ash posix happy, it will be done -- we have the code.  Bash is just way too
heavy for many things.

You could also provide another posix complient bourne shell.

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