On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 03:11:54PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> Thanks for the information, Jon. I hadn't realised that! I've merrily
> carried on using "bash". :-/
Bash is a lot friendlier and better suited as a login or interactive
shell. The startup time is not so important for that situation.
Lisi Reisz writes:
> On Tuesday 27 November 2012 12:02:34 Jon Dowland wrote:
>> For modern Debian installations it's not bash either. Switching /bin/sh
>> to dash by default was done principally to make boot times quicker (dash
>> is smaller and faster to load than bash).
>
> Thanks for the infor
On Tuesday 27 November 2012 12:02:34 Jon Dowland wrote:
> For modern Debian installations it's not bash either. Switching /bin/sh
> to dash by default was done principally to make boot times quicker (dash
> is smaller and faster to load than bash).
Thanks for the information, Jon. I hadn't realis
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 02:29:15PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Does it really carry weight?
With sysvinit, which spawns a lot of sh instances, yes. With something like
systemd, no - it tries to solve the same problem in part by not spawning a
shell lots of times.
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Le Mar 27 novembre 2012 14:29, Ralf Mardorf a écrit :
> On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 12:02 +, Jon Dowland wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:30:20AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>
>>> Also very nice is the output of
>>>
>>>
>>> $ ls -l /bin/sh
>>>
>>>
>>> for Ubuntu it's not bash.
>>
>> For modern
On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 12:02 +, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:30:20AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > Also very nice is the output of
> >
> > $ ls -l /bin/sh
> >
> > for Ubuntu it's not bash.
>
> For modern Debian installations it's not bash either. Switching /bin/sh
> to das
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:30:20AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Also very nice is the output of
>
> $ ls -l /bin/sh
>
> for Ubuntu it's not bash.
For modern Debian installations it's not bash either. Switching /bin/sh
to dash by default was done principally to make boot times quicker (dash
is sm
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