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Re: default shell



On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Seth Arnold wrote:

> Second, Debian has been strugling to rid itself of bashisms -- features
> in scripts called vi #!/bin/sh that work only when bash is used as the
> 'sh' implementation. Many Debian users wanted NetBSD's ash to be used as
> /bin/sh, and discovered the hard way that bashisms were preventing them.
> Mostly, the problems have died down, but .. that was the result of a
> year or longer of 500+ developers fixing problems as users reported
> them. Yup.
y'know that linux kernel doesn't compile when pdksh is /bin/sh? :)
I think being shell-independent is too much for linux :)

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