Re: Emacs Environment Variables

[Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Ismael Valladolid Torres <ivalladt@ono.com> writes:
>
>> Peter Dyballa escribe:
>>> IMO bash is a bit too complicated to be used as a user's default shell.
>>
>> Ubuntu people also thought this way.
>
> Huh?  I don't see that.  Ubuntu defaults to a different /bin/sh, but
> that is the _scripting_ default shell, not the user default shell.
>

On my debian system /bin/sh is just a symbolic link to /bin/bash. When you
invoke bash as sh, it reverts to 'traditional' sh behavior and disables
bash specific add-ons. 

the 'real' sh executables I've seen are usually light-weight stripped down
shells suitable for rescue disks etc, where you probably want statically
linked small footprint stuff - but its still the basic sh shell that I
believe you will find on every GNU Linux and from my limited experience
Unix system. 

Tim

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