On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 4:09 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > FWIW/IMHO, I don't believe the news item needs mentioning that it was bash > that made it slow and inflexible. Most users don't so much care whether > it's C or bash or java that made it so, only that it was.
If this were Ubuntu I'd be inclined to agree. However, I think that most Gentoo users would be interested. Maybe I have a different perspective because I just gave a talk on booting two nights ago at an LUG, but I wasn't even the one to bring up the shortcomings of bash in the typical linux SysVInit-based service scripts. Various approaches that were discussed included symlinking /bin/sh to dash instead of bash, and C-based solutions (or a combination of both). It was interesting to hear that at least a few other distros struggle with bashisms in their init scripts, but no so much due to licensing/BSD issues but because of a desire to use dash which does not support all bashisms. No need to go into gory details, but mentioning that it is C-based instead of bash-based seems reasonable. Granted, we're not really getting rid of one of the problems with bash, which isn't just /sbin/rc but rather it includes the init scripts themselves (every one of which requires spawning a new bash, and many spawn additional processes like sed/awk/etc). Rich
