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On Friday 26 March 2004 19:39, Seemant Kulleen wrote: |
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> That's exactly the point of my questions as well, actually. We got a |
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> bug report in (at least one, probably more), asking for choice in |
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> shells. The complaint essentially was that the rc-script and init stuff |
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> uses /bin/bash explicitly, and not /bin/sh. The thinking behind that |
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> report was that people may want to have some other-than-bash shell |
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> installed, which is what brings us to here now :) |
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If there are scripts that rely on #!/bin/sh being bash, then I think that'd be |
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a reasonable bug. /bin/sh on a SVR4 system is definitely less capable than |
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bash. If he's complaining about scripts that use #!/bin/bash, then I think |
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he's wasting our time ;-) |
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(Hrm .. just noticed that /bin/bash isn't statically linked. "Traditionally", |
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if it goes in /bin or /sbin, it should be statically linked, so that it works |
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with no /usr or /lib mounted. That's why "traditional" systems also have |
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shells in /usr/bin.) |
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Do we *have* a true /bin/sh package in Portage? The nearest I ever saw the |
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free software community come was ash. |
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Best regards, |
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Stu |
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