since SBCL is such a prominent implementation, but I didn't find
any obvious discussion about any of this previously...
---> Drake Wilson
n my own desktop system, when I realized sh was bash recently I immediately
relinked it to dash and intend to keep it that way as long as I reasonably
can (I assume some things may break, in the current state; I'm willing to
deal with that on my own for now).
---> Drake Wilson
On 26/09/14 07:30, Drake Wilson wrote:
> There is a _lot_ of "magic behavior" in bash. Debian bug #762839 mentions
> how bash still imports shell functions from environment variables with magic
> names, even when called as sh. The --posix option seems something of a joke.
S
king about them leads to
bizarre, inescapable compatibility situations getting worse and impeding any
further development.
I admit feeling a bit insulted having my mail quoted as a "witch hunt". The
recent events were only a trigger to reëxamine something I'd considered doing
ever since the first install a long while back.
---> Drake Wilson
g a subdirectory of /tmp for each new
"action" that needs temporary files is a better approach.
---> Drake Wilson
o/
development branch right now then it should be relegated to a more-experimental
package, but there's potential follow-on problems surrounding how many users
test
the rest of the system with a newer GnuPG.
Has upstream actually been contacted about this to ask what they think?
---> Drake Wilson
David C. Rankin wrote:
> Is there anything other than hardware that could account for this? The
> drive in the laptop is
[etc.]
Bad RAM is a common source of data corruption along those lines. Try booting a
memtest disc?
---> Drake Wilson
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