On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 08:44:34PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > some years ago I remember reading here that pointing /bin/sh to dash or > > ash would break a lot of important scripts in Debian; > > Umm, well, if /bin/sh points to dash/ash and you write a script with > bashisms then you have to have #!/bin/bash as the interpreter line. The > reason there was talk about it, is that traditionally /bin/sh pointed to > /bin/bash and so it wouldn't matter if you used bashisms or not. Now, I was always wondering about this. I thought bash behaved differently (as in POSIX) when called as sh. > /bin/sh is going to point to dash for reasons of bootup speed and I > suppose also (eventually) to not force the installation of bash, as it > is a bit of a resource hog, although this last part is just a guess. I think bash will remain a high priority package as it is a better choice as a default shell *than dash/ash* (no flamewars please) for normal users. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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