<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Ned Deily <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nad@acm.org" target="_blank">nad@acm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In article <12845854.HUSkGzuWFH@portia.local>,<br>
<span class=""> Rene J.V. Bertin <<a href="mailto:rjvbertin@gmail.com">rjvbertin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Tuesday September 30 2014 11:29:55 Brandon Allbery wrote:<br>
</span><span class="">> > (In fact, I was kinda hoping that Apple was being slow about patching<br>
> > because they were regression-testing ash as /bin/sh... sigh.)<br>
> No, probably more because the bug has so many faces that they preferred to<br>
> wait a bit rather than send out multiple updates.<br>
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</span><a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6495" target="_blank">http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6495</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>sigh.</div><div><br></div><div>Yes, I know about the patches. And I know why they didn't do the switch, especially considering that it's normally too large a change to consider without a major release as opposed to a patch... but IMO bash as /bin/sh is so boneheaded as to be worth an exception. (Yes, I feel this way about Linux as well. I was fully supportive when Debian switched its /bin/sh to dash.) </div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div>
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