On Fri, 12 Jan 2018, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
Then I guess I shouldn't bother submitting an as-static-as-possible
bash build variant, which is necessary if one wants a safe
/bin/{bash,sh} on OS versions Apple didn't update for ShellShock. It's
a bit ugly anyway...
If you're suggesting that with this variant you would build bash with
MacPorts and then replace /bin/bash with it, then no, that would not be
something I would necessarily advocate having in MacPorts.
As a point of interest, FreeBSD has a /rescue directory for that very
thing e.g:
aneurin% file /rescue/sh
/rescue/sh: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD),
statically linked, for FreeBSD 10.4, FreeBSD-style, stripped
Whether Apple wants to admit that its machines can crash and thereby cream
the filesystem is another question...
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