From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: How to install a custom permanent postinstall handler?
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2016 04:09:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5700975A.3070002@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a8lcicxg.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
On 2016-04-02 04:21, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Andrey Repin writes:
>> Couple of my scripts rely on ASH/DASH functionality that is not present in
>> BASH. (Namely "local -".)
>> To amend that, I make a symlink /bin/sh = /bin/dash .
>> But every time bash update, it overwrite the link.
>
> I think the correct course of action would be to put /bin/sh under
> control of the alternatives system.
I am not in favour of /bin/sh being alternatives-able. The *proper*
course of action is to use the shebang for the script interpreter you
require, i.e. /bin/dash.
--
Yaakov
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-03 4:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-01 21:05 Andrey Repin
2016-04-02 9:21 ` Achim Gratz
2016-04-02 14:18 ` Eric Blake
2016-04-02 14:56 ` Achim Gratz
2016-04-03 4:09 ` Yaakov Selkowitz [this message]
2016-04-03 6:24 ` Achim Gratz
2016-04-03 11:47 ` Dirk Fassbender
2016-04-03 12:02 ` Achim Gratz
2016-04-03 18:06 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2016-04-03 23:20 ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-04 6:09 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2016-04-04 11:20 ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-04 14:42 ` Eric Blake
2016-04-04 15:37 ` Helmut Karlowski
2016-04-04 15:53 ` Achim Gratz
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