Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering <mzerq...@0pointer.de> said: > The shell is API.
Yep, and that API is the POSIX shell language, an extended version of the Bourne shell. It is a Linux curiousity that came along to use bash as /bin/sh. > 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. Writing "#!/bin/sh" and expecting bash in inherently non-portable. Anything that runs on more than one platform will have already found that out. Saying that Fedora can't use anything other than bash as /bin/sh because of that is a very poor argument. If that's the case, why do we have the /bin/sh symlink? Just remove it and make the bash dependency explicit (so everything has to call /bin/bash). > 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. It isn't that hard. -- Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
