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Re: How to install a custom permanent postinstall handler?


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> On 04/04/2016 12:09 AM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> > On 2016-04-03 18:05, Andrey Repin wrote:
> >> Because, within my reach, Cygwin is the only system that not using
> >> DASH as
> >> /bin/sh. Though, I may try rolling some busybox?
> > 
> > There *is* a world outside of Debian/Ubuntu; Fedora, RHEL/CentOS, and
> > Arch Linux all use bash for /bin/sh.  However, a simple test in the form
> > of building GCC with dash as /bin/sh, while noticeably faster, showed
> > that Debian/Ubuntu have yet to fully upstream their work
> > ("gcc/genmultilib: 261: shift: can't shift that many").
> 
> And non-Linux systems use a completely different shell for /bin/sh
> (neither dash nor bash; BSD systems tend to use mksh).

OpenBSD uses the old pdksh with patches for /bin/sh and /bin/ksh.

-Helmut



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