On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 10:27 AM <devel-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 08:16:43 -0700 Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote: > On 3/25/19 8:02 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Mon, 2019-03-25 at 12:59 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > >> And since RPM appears to be configurable for the > >> default interpreter, have it use /usr/bin/bash by default. > >=20 > > TBH, it seems to me reasonable that we just do this. > >=20 > > If our position is that we actually expect Fedora package scriptlets to= > > > be executed by bash and don't think it's a problem if they don't work > > when executed by some other shell, why not this make this clear and > > explicit in this way instead of having the default be sh, but then tell= > > > people sh must be bash? > > Doesn't bash behave slightly differently when invoked as 'sh' ? > > Long ago it used to, but I don't know if thats still the case... > Yes, it enters POSIX mode after startup. From 'info bash': 6.11 Bash POSIX Mode > ==================== > > Starting Bash with the '--posix' command-line option or executing 'set > -o posix' while Bash is running will cause Bash to conform more closely > to the POSIX standard by changing the behavior to match that specified > by POSIX in areas where the Bash default differs. > > When invoked as 'sh', Bash enters POSIX mode after reading the > startup files. > Details of the differences follow in that section. -- Steve -- Steven Bonneville <sbonn...@redhat.com> Principal Technical Curriculum Architect Red Hat | Red Hat Training Phone: +1-612-638-0507 gpg: 1024D/221D06FF 68B1 3E66 A351 6485 B9AF 24D8 3DF5 B50B 221D 06FF
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