Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Stabilization of netifrc-0.2.2, "extra testers wanted"
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 09:10:34
Message-Id: 20140408091021.GA3250@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Stabilization of netifrc-0.2.2, "extra testers wanted" by Samuli Suominen
1 On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 07:30:00AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote
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3 > I don't think you should really expect anything, it's just that we
4 > have no intrested in breaking peoples networking... Personally I'm
5 > worried about users with alternative /bin/sh symlinks, pointing
6 > to something else than bash, like to dash, but that worry could be
7 > misguided too.
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9 That sounds worrisome. There's no such animal as "sh" anymore, just a
10 symlink to whatever. Wouldn't it make sense to explicitly specify
11 "#!/bin/bash", rather than "#!/bin/sh" and hope+pray that /bin/sh
12 symlinks to something bash-compatable?
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14 Or if bash is too heavyweight, howsabout explicitly specifying
15 "#!/bin/busybox ash" and making sure that scripts run properly under it?
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18 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
19 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications