On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Tom Rivers wrote: >> >> So there's a vulnerability found in bash, it gets patched almost >> immediately, and all of a sudden there's a push to abandon it altogether? > > > That is a mischaracterization. Bash will remain the interactive shell. > This discussion is limited to switching the system shell (/bin/sh) from > Bash to potentially Dash. But the prompt for doing so is a security incident that has already been fixed. If this was really a worthwhile endeavour, why hasn't it come up before? This is, at its core, a knee-jerk reaction with little actual data to support a switch. I would have rather seen this come up as a proposal with data showing dash is faster or more secure or more compatible, etc. Until something like that shows up, I think we're just going to wind up with a long thread that doesn't actually accomplish anything. josh -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
