18 Jun
2024
18 Jun
'24
4:34 a.m.
On Mon, 17 Jun 2024, Stuff Received wrote:
On 2024-06-16 21:25, Larry McVoy wrote (in part):
[...]
Which is why I'm glad Debian's /bin/sh is dash (fork of ash) instead.
-uso.
*Every* time they used some bash-ism, it bit us
in the ass.
This is so true for a lot of OS projects (on Github, for example). Most --
sometimes all -- the scripts that start with /bin/sh but are full of bashisms
because the authors run systems where /bin/sh is really bash.