On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 11:30:37AM -0500, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 23 May 1999, Werner Reisberger wrote: > > > I would really aprecciate if the debian base system uses in all important > > system scripts /bin/sh. It would be also safer to use for sh not a symbolic > > link to bash but instead to ash or another bourne compatible shell to avoid > > problems if the bash is broken. > > IIRC, they're trying to do this. But first they have to get rid of the > bash-isms from those scripts, and from a lot of other scripts that use > /bin/sh expecting it to be bash. > > Just out of curiousity, which important startup script has the /bin/bash? > So i can watch out for it if i ever have a broken bash >
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. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't you try to out-weird me! I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal! --Zaphod Beeblebrox
