Doug Scott wrote on 09/ 6/07 11:13 AM:
> Iain MacDonnell wrote:
>>
>> Brandorr wrote on 09/ 6/07 10:20 AM:
>>> I turned the question into two separate questions:
>>>
>>> ===Q: Why doesn't /bin/sh point to bash?===
>>> A: Solaris uses the Bourne shell (/bin/sh) as the default system shell
>>> to satisfy backward compatibility with historic releases of Solaris.
>>> There is work being planned to replace the Bourne shell with a generic
>>> POSIX compliant shell. Whether that is an updated bash running in
>>> POSIX compatibility mode, or another shell such as ksh93 is still an
>>> open question. Either option require additional coding resources to
>>> implement.
>>>
>>> ===Q: Why isn't bash the default system shell?===
>>> A: There is a consensus building to use a modern/user-friendly default
>>> system shell, such as bash or ksh93, but the integration and
>>> compatibility changes required have yet to be done.
>> Sorry if this is nit-picky, but what does "default system shell" mean?
>> If you mean the default for useradd (etc.), the word "system" is
>> probably throwing me off. Maybe "default user shell" would be better?
>>
>> ~Iain
>>
> I think by "default system shell" people are talking about the
> executable that runs a shell script which has '#!/bin/sh' as the first
> line etc.
Isn't that what the first question addresses?
> The actual shell could be the original bourne shell or another shell
> like either bash or ksh that is linked to /bin/sh and acts like a POSIX
> shell when the system executes it as /bin/sh. Some people could also be
> referring to the default shell that root uses.
Right. I think there could/should be a separate question for that too
(default shell for the root vs. default shell for newly-created users).
At least it seems that I'm not the only one for whom the above is
unclear...
~Iain
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