Re: Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork

[Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>]

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According to Brian Dessent on 7/7/2005 8:21 PM:
>>coreutils already requires libintl and libiconv since 5.2.1 days, so most
>>useful actions in a postinstall script have already depended on having
>>libraries available as part of Base.  Based on several months of no
>>complaints, I think we can discount the theoretical problems of this scenario.
> 
> Postinstall scripts almost universally have /bin/sh in the shebang, and
> so were using ash regardless of which bash was installed.  The recent
> replacement of /bin/sh with bash means that prior to now we had no
> experience in this area.

Except that even the /bin/sh postinstalls often did mv, cp, or some other
action involving one of the coreutils.  It's hard to do much of anything
without using the coreutils, which have depended on iconv and intl since
their 5.2.1 days.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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