Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:42:33 -0700 | From | "SL Baur" <> | Subject | Re: Why use /bin/sh in kernel build system? |
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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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