Hi

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Tom Rivers wrote:
So there's a vulnerability found in bash, it gets patched almost immediately, and all of a sudden there's a push to abandon it altogether?

That is a mischaracterization.  Bash will remain the interactive shell.  This discussion is limited  to switching the system shell (/bin/sh) from Bash to potentially Dash. 

Rahul