[gentoo-user] Re: Dash as /bin/sh?

2006-09-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alexander Skwar wrote: The Ubuntu folks report on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh, that bootup and also ./configure runs are *WAY* faster if dash is used as /bin/sh instead of bash. Did anyone try this out on Gentoo? Are the boot scripts from Gentoo strictly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dash as /bin/sh?

2006-09-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/1/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: little bash/python scripting involved... and none of the python bloat that gentoo has going on in /etc/init.d. AFACT, python is never invoked for any of the init scripts. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dash as /bin/sh?

2006-09-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 04:06:15 +0200, Harm Geerts wrote: A 20% reduction in boot time is a reasonable impact IMO. Any chance that was a fluke? I ran the test several times, and switched back top bash to confirm. The boot times were consistent, within the accuracy of the idiot holding the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dash as /bin/sh?

2006-09-02 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 02 September 2006 14:10, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 04:06:15 +0200, Harm Geerts wrote: A 20% reduction in boot time is a reasonable impact IMO. Any chance that was a fluke? I ran the test several times, and switched back top bash to confirm. The boot times were

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dash as /bin/sh?

2006-09-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 16:33:01 +0200, Harm Geerts wrote: You can force sux to use bash. Just replace the first line in /usr/bin/sux with #!/bin/bash That was the first thing I tried, it made no difference. A quick look at sux shows it building a command to pas to exec that used $SHELL,. This is

[gentoo-user] Re: Dash as /bin/sh?

2006-09-01 Thread Harm Geerts
On Friday 01 September 2006 17:21, Neil Bothwick wrote: Speaking of which, you probably should see the shell used in the scripts from the sys-apps/baselayout package. All shell scripts use /bin/bash and not /bin/sh. So linking (d)ash as the default shell doesn't nearly have the impact

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dash as /bin/sh?

2006-09-01 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 01 September 2006 22:06, Harm Geerts wrote: On Friday 01 September 2006 17:21, Neil Bothwick wrote: Speaking of which, you probably should see the shell used in the scripts from the sys-apps/baselayout package. All shell scripts use /bin/bash and not /bin/sh. So linking