Bash shell support?

Bernd Petrovitsch bernd at firmix.at
Fri Aug 18 08:55:53 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 11:39 +0530, Riaz Rahaman wrote:
[...]
> I have been using Busy box version 1.1.2 and in that there was no
> support for bash shell, but in version 1.2.1 when I do a make
> menuconfig I find in the shells there is something called bourne shell
> options, but in setting of default shell I dont find Bash? 
> 
> Is there a plan to include Bash shell in the future releases?

It makes absolutely no sense - if you absolutely need it, just include
"bash" directly. If you need only a shell for startup scripts, start
with the smallest provided ones and write the scripts as simple as
possible.

	Bernd
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