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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] New package: dash-0.5.5.1-1
- From: Edward Lam <edward at sidefx dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:12:56 -0400
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] New package: dash-0.5.5.1-1
- References: <announce.4A55DD6C.8030203@byu.net>
Eric Blake wrote:
So for now, there are no plans of replacing /bin/sh with dash.
Incidentally, I copy ash.exe over to sh.exe every time for performance.
AFAICT, /bin/sh defaulted to bash (from ash) back in the bash 3.0 series
to be more "similar to Linux distributions". It took me quite some head
scratching at the time to determine why my "make clean" would take ~2
times slower.
Changing /bin/sh to dash of course else will now probably cause the
headaches that Ubuntu users have experienced leading to proposals to
change /bin/sh back to bash:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2225/
-Edward
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