F20 System Wide Change: Change Packaging Guidelines to discourage requires into /bin and /sbin

Eric Smith brouhaha at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jul 16 20:31:35 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
> /bin/sh is *not* a bash script
> /bin/sh is *whatever* your default shell would be

I certainly hope not.  I've worked on plenty of Unix machines where
the default shell was csh or tcsh, but if /bin/sh had been csh or a
link to it, all hell would have broken loose.

/bin/sh had bloody well better be something that is compatible with
the Bourne shell.

Eric


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