[OpenIndiana-discuss] Bash bug issue

[Predrag Zecevic [Unix Systems Administrator]]

On 09/25/14 03:48 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2014, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
>>
>> Recent discussions seem to lead to a general security concern
>> with the crippled bash parser, so there nearly certainly will
>> be more and more security issues in the next days to come up.
>> I think the better alternative is to provide 'dash' and symlink
>> bash to dash instead, as dash much cleaner, faster, and POSIX -
>> compliant. Although, as it has not been widely used as bash
>> yet, could have its own bugs not yet discovered....
>
> Unfortunately, 'dash' is not completely compatible with scripts written for 'bash'.  It is not clear to my why people write shell
> scripts targeting bash, but it seems to happen often.
>
> Bob

Probably because they are coming from Linux background...

I had to leave ksh because of that ...

Regards.

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