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SubjectRe: Why use /bin/sh in kernel build system?
On 4/29/08, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 03:27:02PM -0500, Mark Rustad wrote:

> > > Life is too short to keep having to fight silliness like this and I
> > > can't see a valid reason why a system building a Linux kernel, or for that
> > > matter gcc, should not have the bash shell installed on it.

> Hint: not every joe user may install bash into /bin... That's why we
> see some scripts begin with "/usr/bin/env bash" as there are less
> systems without env in /usr/bin than systems without bash in /bin (or
> at all).

/bin/sh standard behaviour is defined. We follow standards not written or
dictated by us. I'm proud of that.

-sb


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