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From: | Steinar Bang |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Add shell-quasiquote. |
Date: | Mon, 26 Oct 2015 13:58:11 +0100 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.4 (windows-nt) |
>>>>> David Kastrup <address@hidden>: > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes: >> Sometimes it pays to be precise. All of the OS distributions gave up >> on bash because it didn't quite conform to POSIX (even when invoked in >> POSIX compatibility mode), and that caused bugs in package >> installation and management for packages that used sh scripts rather >> than perl or python. That's why shells like ash and dash exist. > I think it was more a question of size and startup speed. I thought the change to dash was to avoid vulnerabilities like shellshock...? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellshock_(software_bug) (I only found out about the existence of dash when I checked my debian machines for shellshock vulnerability (and to my relief found that /bin/sh wasn't bash at all...))
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