coreutils instructions

[Tushar Teredesai]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would really go the other way and make all the scripts start with #!/bin/bash
> and use the features of bash.  When we use the lowest common denominator, we
> prevent progress.  If someone wants to use dash or another incomplete shell as a
> default, then they should customize the startup scripts too.

Discussing whether to make bootscripts POSIX compliant or not is a
discussion that we already had multiple times before with a decision
to go for it. I don't think there is any need to rehash.

BTW, debian devs would probably be offended if you called dash
"incomplete". I think one of the debian devs had a blog on the speedup
achieved by making their bootscripts use /bin/dash instead of
/bin/bash.

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