[TUHS] Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' The Register

Steve Nickolas usotsuki at buric.co
Tue Jun 18 08:34:06 AEST 2024


On Mon, 17 Jun 2024, Stuff Received wrote:

> On 2024-06-16 21:25, Larry McVoy wrote (in part):
> [...]
>> *Every* time they used some bash-ism, it bit us in the ass.
>
> This is so true for a lot of OS projects (on Github, for example).  Most -- 
> sometimes all -- the scripts that start with /bin/sh but are full of bashisms 
> because the authors run systems where /bin/sh is really bash.

Which is why I'm glad Debian's /bin/sh is dash (fork of ash) instead.

-uso.


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