Am 01.05.2012 18:53, schrieb Florian Philipp: > Am 29.04.2012 16:04, schrieb Marc Joliet: >> Am Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:20:41 +0200 >> schrieb Florian Philipp <li...@binarywings.net>: >> >>> Hi list! >> >> Hi, >> >>> Now that eselect-sh has been stabilized, I'm wondering if anyone has >>> tried setting dash as the /bin/sh symlink. Any experiences? >> >> >> I've been using dash as my /bin/sh for a while now. I've had it installed >> since >> June 2009, I suppose I've had the symlink set for the same length of time. >> >> Pretty much all incompatibilities I encountered are fixed now, stuff like >> openrc introducing bashisms (what fun! I never used the debug option of an >> init >> script before or since), or the Audacity build system having #!/bin/sh but >> using bashisms. I seem to recall that I have one package installed that has >> this >> problem and requires changing the symlink temporarily, but I don't remember >> which. It might have been fixed by now, though. >> >> Also, the old mysql-init-scripts-1.2 package requires bash, in case that >> matters >> to you. >>
The dmcrypt init script also has a single bashism. A bug about this has been open for quiet some time now: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408117 >> So I don't think you should expect any problems (save for the rare >> exception), >> and for me there was a noticeable speedup with the init system (also reported >> by Flameeyes in his blog). >> >>> Thanks in advance! >>> Florian Philipp >> >> HTH > > Hi Marc, > > thanks for the info! I've tried it on one of my systems and in my > measurements, it definitely scraped off a few seconds of the reboot cycle. > > Regards, > Florian Philipp I suggest that anyone who wants to switch tries something like this before rebooting to see if the init scripts can be parsed by dash: for i in /etc/init.d/*; do printf '%s\t' "$i"; "$i" status; done Regards, Florian Philipp
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