I recently did an apt-get update/upgrade on our debian woody test machine, and it installed a shell called ash as a /bin/sh replacement. The claim for this was to allow for a POSIX compliant /bin/sh. Unfortunately, our test suite doesn't build with ash used as /bin/sh. Changing the symlink for /bin/sh to bash fixes the build problem, but somewhat defeats the purpose of having a POSIX compliant shell. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Anyone from Debian or anyone at all know enough about ash to share with us how closely it relates to bash?
Arnold
