Bash shell support?

Denis Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Tue Aug 29 08:00:18 UTC 2006


On Friday 18 August 2006 10:49, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:39:15AM +0530, Riaz Rahaman wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> Bourne shell does not mean bash. Bash is a highly bloated, extended
> implementation of the standard Bourne shell, which does not even quite
> comply with the standard. In practice ash will probably do everything
> you want.

Trying to use ash on a full-blown desktop machine was a disaster
for me. Too buggy.

If we ever want to use bbox shell on desktop, we need
to be mostly bash-compatible.
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vda



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