On Sep 25, 2014 9:36 PM, "Russ Allbery" <r...@debian.org> wrote: > > Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> writes: > > > Since I’m pretty sure we haven’t uncovered all of bash’s “features”, > > wouldn’t it be a good opportunity to make a release goal of killing all > > scripts with a #!/bin/bash shebang? > > That may be overkill, but I will say that I'm feeling *extremely* grateful > the last few days that we pushed forward with switching /bin/sh to dash, > even though some folks thought this was a bad idea. Having the shell used > by system() and popen() be as simple as possible turns out to be rather > important. >
In that case, I'd think busybox's sh is *much* more minimalist. Why dash over busybox?