Dash as default shell

[Orion Poplawski]

On 10/03/2014 03:55 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 10/03/2014 02:34 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 02:29:53PM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>>>> Is it worth considering using Dash as the default (non-interactive)
>>>> shell in Fedora?  Other distributions including Ubuntu and Debian
>>>> (https://lwn.net/Articles/343924/) have been using dash as the default
>>>> shell and Android uses mksh.  While this appears to have been done
>>>> primary to increase bootup efficiency (which is not relevant with
>>>> systemd), it might help with security
>>>
>>> More bashism's in .spec files:
>>> + pushd src
>>> /tmp/rpm/rpm-tmp.047Jay: 43: /tmp/rpm/rpm-tmp.047Jay: pushd: not found
>>
>> All the other things aside, I think it'd be fine for us to leave bash
>> as the
>> shell for spec file scripts even if we changed /bin/sh and/or the root
>> shell.
>>
>
> Yeah, I'm wondering if an rpm bug is in order here now to explicitly use
> /bin/bash.
>
http://rpm.org/ticket/877

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