Re: /bin/sh - /bin/bash
On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Richard Kilgore wrote:
> On Sep 9, Vincent Renardias wrote
> >
> >On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> >
> >> bash is in the base system and therefore universally available. What is
> >> the problem with /bin/bash?
> >
> >On slow systems (386, etc...) ash is *much* faster than bash and takes
> >much less memory.
> >
> >bash is fine overwise...
>
> Last I checked, Netscape fails to spawn external programs when
> /bin/sh is set as a link to /bin/bash. I'm not sure whether this
> is a bug in /bin/bash or documented incompatibility, but it's a
> pain either way.
People who prefer ash to bash because they are low on memory don't even
try to run X, and even less Netscape. (Imagine X11+Netscape in 6 MB ? ;)
Not to mention that it's a bug in Netscape, _not_ in bash nor ash.
Cordialement,
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