"bash" alias is added
Denys Vlasenko
vda.linux at googlemail.com
Thu May 20 00:12:07 UTC 2010
On Wednesday 19 May 2010 06:12, Rob Landley wrote:
> Which is why you say #!/bin/bash and then teach busybox's shells to understand
> the name "bash". The name is a promise of an API beyond Posix.
>
> > I'm not understanding the argument
> > for using bash-specific functionality, but not using bash as the shell.
> > Yes dash has "gratuitous bash incompatibilities", but you are
> > *explicitly* saying to use /bin/sh, which dash *is* compatible with.
>
> No, he said #!/bin/bash and somebody complained that busybox couldn't work
> with that. I agree that's a problem, but the _bug_ is that busybox needs to
> be extended to route the name "bash" to hush and then hush taught to do more
> stuff.
See attached. Now it's possible to run ash or hush using "bash" name.
Of course, this is trivial...
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