> > This is not a good idea. Ash is Bourne-compatible, but not POSIX, which > bash is. That's why bash is used as sh. Install the bash source and look > in the tests/ directory. Run the file posix.tests with bash, and it > passes every test. Ash fails 8 of the tests. >
Can you be specific and point me to what fails. if it is a matter of making ash posix happy, it will be done -- we have the code. Bash is just way too heavy for many things. You could also provide another posix complient bourne shell.