Re: Dash as default shell

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On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 02:29:53PM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> >Is it worth considering using Dash as the default (non-interactive)
> >shell in Fedora?  Other distributions including Ubuntu and Debian
> >(https://lwn.net/Articles/343924/) have been using dash as the default
> >shell and Android uses mksh.  While this appears to have been done
> >primary to increase bootup efficiency (which is not relevant with
> >systemd), it might help with security
> 
> More bashism's in .spec files:
> + pushd src
> /tmp/rpm/rpm-tmp.047Jay: 43: /tmp/rpm/rpm-tmp.047Jay: pushd: not found

All the other things aside, I think it'd be fine for us to leave bash as the
shell for spec file scripts even if we changed /bin/sh and/or the root
shell.

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