Re: Bourne shell deprecated?

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On 04/26/2016 06:45 PM, Jack Bailey wrote:
Today someone in a meeting claimed the Bourne shell is deprecated, one of the reasons being it supposedly has security issues. Well that's all news to me, and I cannot find anything online to corroborate the claim. Is this true, is it a bash vs. Bourne FUD, or something else?


The Bourne shell is not POSIX conforming. It's not widely available. It was included in Solaris until 11, when it was replaced with a POSIX compatible sh.


It was affected by a security issue in 2014:

http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-15053/year-2014/Heirloom.html


I think it's hard to argue that it's not deprecated.

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