On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 05:50:54PM +0100, Dagfinn Ilmari Manns?ker wrote: > Remember that Perl's system()¹ , as well as C's system() and popen() > invoke /bin/sh, which may or may not be bash (it is on RedHat-like > systems, but not on Debian-like systems, for example).
ORLY? $ ls -l /bin/bash /bin/sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 625228 Dec 19 2004 /bin/bash lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 16 2007 /bin/sh -> bash On *recent* Debian-ish systems sh isn't bash, but it's foolish to assume that all Debian-ish systems are recent. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary" -- H. L. Mencken
