On Wed, 01.10.14 22:19, Chris Adams (li...@cmadams.net) wrote: > One thing that might be a good topic for consideration: is there a > reasonable way to allow different implementations to take the /bin/sh > symlink? Could this be handled through the alternatives system, so that > admins could choose bash vs. dash vs. whatever?
The shell is API. Currently, if people write shell (#!/bin/sh) scripts on Fedora, they can be sure that the same language is available on all Fedora installations. If you suddenly make /bin/sh something that might be different on all systems, you pretty much break API there. In general, I am pretty sure that except a couple of programming language or UNIX aficionades very few people can actually correctly separate bashisms from true bourneshellisms. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
