It seems reasonable to want the shell to exec the command passed as a -c argument after evaluating it, instead of forking. However, I don't see anything in POSIX that defines that the shell must do this (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/sh.html). For such a small optimization (the dash shell has been picked precisely because it is very lightweight compared with bash, so stray shell processes for the lifetime of a running cronjob have negligible performance impact on the system), we would not want to carry a delta in Ubuntu. Please discuss with dash upstream (namely, the Debian maintainer).
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