4 Jan
2022
4 Jan
'22
9:45 p.m.
On 1/3/22 5:26 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
you can just choose *not* to upgrade to newer versions
of bash or
network utilities. Who *says* you have to use bash 5.1? Or switch to
ip/ss?
It's always a trade-off, isn't it? If you don't use the current version of
something, you assume the burden of maintenance. As we've seen, vendors
vary as to the attention they give old versions of software (e.g., bash-4.2
still shipping as part of RHEL 7 a decade after bash-4.3 was released).
Google can make that choice for itself, I suppose.
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