how to relink /bin/sh away from dash -- update-alternatives?

Florian Diesch diesch at spamfence.net
Wed May 12 23:56:26 UTC 2010


"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> writes:


> beyond that, is there a known reason that /bin/sh *shouldn't* link to
> bash?

Some broken shell scripts assume that /bin/sh is bash. That's a
bug. They should be fixed to either use only POSIX sh features with
/bin/sh or explicitly use bash if they need it.



   Florian
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