It seems that there are two sides to this very interesting debate. I'm going to reiterate a few things that have been said in the verbage above.
Bash is almost posix compliant, but will little eccentricties like options to echo functioning differently - which bash seems to be quite innocent of - as noted, the ''correct'' behaviour was only mandated in the posix spec in '04. And a few more esoteric things. Echo is my major concern, and seems to have caused the most breakage. We have a refusal to acknowledge that breaking software is a bad thing from the developers who have admin access. As noted, if a script needs to be fast, #!/bin/dash can be used. Boot scripts should probably do that instead of relying on #!/bin/sh. Why aren't they doing this already? A quick summary of reported problematic pieces of software, so you don't have to trawl through the above (please comment if I miss anything): - limewire - intel compiler - cedega - glibc makefiles (!?) - autoconf (?) - vmware - mathematica - nx server I have an honest question. Do the ubuntu pbuilder machines have /bin/sh as bash or dash? How are we building packages if autotools and makefiles are breaking? -- Script that are using bash could be broken with the new symlink https://launchpad.net/bugs/61463 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
