Re: [PATCH] Add shell-quasiquote.

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> David Kastrup <address@hidden>:

> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

>> Sometimes it pays to be precise.  All of the OS distributions gave up
>> on bash because it didn't quite conform to POSIX (even when invoked in
>> POSIX compatibility mode), and that caused bugs in package
>> installation and management for packages that used sh scripts rather
>> than perl or python.  That's why shells like ash and dash exist.

> I think it was more a question of size and startup speed.

I thought the change to dash was to avoid vulnerabilities like
shellshock...?  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellshock_(software_bug)

(I only found out about the existence of dash when I checked my debian
machines for shellshock vulnerability (and to my relief found that
/bin/sh wasn't bash at all...))