On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 6:54 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 06:24 +0800, lolilolicon wrote: >> Anything that has the #!/bin/sh line should be written in pure sh. >> If you want bash, ask for bash. > > I absolutely agree with your statement and that is why I don't care > about the sh link ;). IMO it's the useless link ever.
But you're missing the fact that /bin/sh is hardcoded in system calls, such as system(3), popen(3). So /bin/sh has to exist. The question is what should really be? My answer is whatever is closest to what pure sh is supposed to be, thus dash (definitely not bash).
