On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Rob OpenSuSE
So I have no idea why that path would be bash, and also evidence to suggest that it's proven to be a poor choice in practice (Fedora nash, Ubuntu dash).
To be fair, nash has also been proven to be a poor choice in practice.
I don't know if dash is better, it's just SMALLER than bash, and has a
much lower impact on the system regarding
a) loading the binary (although from ram I doubt you could really say
it takes a long time)
b) dependencies on other libraries (linker time, which is the real problem)
c) size of the initrd (even static dash is smaller than the
dynamically linked bash)
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Matt Sealey