*- On 9 Jan, John Hasler wrote about "Re: Adding a superuser" > Arcady Genkin writes: >> I wonder what would be the rationale for not including a standard sh in a >> distro. > > When called as sh bash is about as standard as any. If you don't care for > bash you can always install ash, which is the NetBSD sh. If you link sh to > it you may break a few things, though.
If sh -> ash and 'things break' then those 'things' should call bash or whatever shell explicitly, and a bug report should be filed against that 'thing' . Ash is a POSIX complient shell and supports all 'sh' functions. I have had sh -> ash for several months now and have not had any problems. Brian Servis -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
