severity 604993 normal quit Hi Tim,
Tim Connors wrote: > When /bin/sh is linked to dash, if <prog> is a shell script (/bin/sh > or /bin/bash), that shell script sees $PPID as being the "sh -c" process. Could you give an example? I tried: $ sh -c 'echo $PPID; echo $$' 18562 18564 $ python -c 'import os; os.system("echo $PPID; echo $$");' 18577 18578 so I suspect I am missing something. > I have marked this as "grave", because it breaks unrelated parts of > the system No. > Never mind the fact that I didn't actively install > dash - it came in with dependencies and eventually decided to ignore > my choice for /bin/sh to be manually linked to bash after several > upgrades where it obeyed me). Please feel free to file a bug if you have ideas for improving this. At the very least, I imagine the release notes (package release-notes) could use some improvement. Thanks for reporting. Happy thanksgiving, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org