[OpenIndiana-discuss] Bash bug issue

[Gary Gendel]

I believe we mostly skirt the issue because, unlike Linux, the default 
shell (/bin/sh) is ksh93 not bash.  This means that under normal 
conditions we shouldn't have an issue.  Only if your cgi scripts 
actually request bash will apache be a problem.  As for ssh, it depends 
upon the login shell for the user.

On 09/25/2014 01:04 PM, Tim Mooney wrote:
> In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bash bug issue, Bob 
> Friesenhahn...:
>
>> 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.
>
> Two reasons:
>
> - It's the "all the world's a VAX" syndrome for the current generation.
>
> - bash (and ksh) do provide some handy features that traditional Bourne
>   shell does not, and for a large portion of inexperienced programmers,
>   convenience/laziness trumps portability
>
> Both things drive me crazy, but they've been going on for my entire
> career in computing, so I have no reason to expect that either are going
> to ever disappear.
>
> Tim