On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 11:53:18AM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
OK, then; care to explicitly list the advantages you expect to see from such a switch, and why they outweigh the disadvantages and the migration costs?
I don't have a predrawn conclusion that I am advocating strongly for here but I am convinced it is worth a discussion. So far from the discussions I have seen the advantages as reduced size ( dash is significantly smaller than bash) and this can be a nice advantage for containers etc, POSIX correctness (/bin/sh should be only used by shell scripts that don't rely on Bash specific features), performance (Zdenek Kabelac posted some numbers)
Also it will reduce differences between Linux distribution. And take us closed to what majority (Ubuntu and Debian) does.