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Re: How to install a custom permanent postinstall handler?
- From: Helmut Karlowski <helmut dot karlowski at ish dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 17:37:35 +0200
- Subject: Re: How to install a custom permanent postinstall handler?
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- Outgoingd: 0.4.0_m1
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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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