-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Mark Baker wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Santiago Vila Doncel) writes: > > > Yes, bash is essential because we always *need* a POSIX shell. But GNU > > bash provides *two* of them: /bin/sh and /bin/bash. Only /bin/sh should > > be essential. > > However, dangling symlinks are not terribly useful, so it would be nice for > /bin/bash to be around too.
Obviously I didn't mean that /bin/sh is essential as a "dangling symlink". We could use hard links too. Or symlinks to /bin/the.real.bash. But I repeat: this is not the point. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNHbN4CqK7IlOjMLFAQFk3wQAtKi7broJvGdZrMfN/a6PrahEy6k9Jx5p BTpgAv76JJlRcM6UA0vlBWuA1N/r5gQFXxBSaCuGUhELbCDv/8sF42k4SozwnbiB 4aGteW6yPsxPjgzzSQU9eatRTnQ1hro2+51x3Y+i61Os27xaJ0yorueAWLEVICop JFUeAlZ/wfs= =JZSG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

