On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 12:17 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
When the offer came up to install dash on my machine and I had a listen
to the bug reports, I decided to do the installation but not make dash my
default shell. Everything on this amd64-k8 machine went without
incident. I haven't yet tried chsh to find out what will happen but am in
a position to do that on a throwaway account created for the purpose and
find out.
I wouldn't use dash as my login shell, it lacks readline support which
I am relying heavily on and I'd be suprised to hear YMDV.