Dash as default shell
Stephen John Smoogen
smooge at gmail.com
Mon Oct 6 14:59:09 UTC 2014
On 6 October 2014 00:06, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com> wrote:
> Il 02/10/2014 11:04, Zdenek Kabelac ha scritto:
> > It used to give significant boost for automake & libtool based software
> > - however at some point libtool started to use bashisms and so you
> > cannot just replace /bin/sh -> dash - as build will fail.
>
> This is wrong.
>
> libtool detects whether you can use bashisms, and falls back to POSIX
> shell constructs if it cannot use them. The non-POSIX constructs are
> usually faster because they do not need to fork() the shell. Autoconf
> does the same. dash rejects some of these constructs, and accept others.
>
Actually this might be the most important item in the whole conversation
about moving to dash. If dash excepts some bashisms and not others... it
isn't a 'default posix' shell and we really need someone to audit it and
not expect that just because XYZ project uses it.. that they audited it.
[And no this isn't a I want to keep bash as root shell argument, I don't
really care what the default exec is as much as it is audited and secure.
While it is clear that bash hasn't been that iwth only one maintainer.. I
have no idea about dash and I am not sure who does.]
--
Stephen J Smoogen.
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