Bugs in defconfig /bin/sh

[Rob Landley]

On Thursday 30 September 2010 13:14:37 Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Thursday 30 September 2010 02:49, Rob Landley wrote:
> > Bug #1: defconfig defaults to ash, but I thought hush was the future bash
> > replacement, recipient of future development work, and ash was a dead
> > end.
>
> No (at least not yet). ash is still the default shell.

Understood, but I thought the strategy going forward was to expand hush into 
both a viable bash replacement and the one true busybox shell, not to try to 
scale ash up (or down) or to make it replace the other busybox shells.

Changing the default to "the one with a future" seems like a reasonable first 
step.  (Making {file,file} curly bracket support work would be darn nice too, 
that's the biggest thing I miss.  You can't even follow the Linux From Scratch 
build instructions without that...)

> > Bug #2: if you "exec" a program, ash doesn't rewrite argv[0] to have the
> > new executable name, but keeps the name of the previous shell.
> >
> > This is an issue when I try to do a gawk wrapper like so:
> >
> >   #!/bin/sh
> >
> >   exec /bin/awk "$@"
> >
> > The result is:
> >
> >   busybox: gawk: applet not found.
>
> I can't reproduce this.

Yeah, it was an error at my end.  My bad.

Rob
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