[CentOS] Bourne shell deprecated?

Thu Apr 28 01:04:12 UTC 2016
Pouar <thepouar at gmail.com>

On 04/27/16 15:16, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> On 04/27/16 13:21, Pouar wrote:
>> On 04/27/16 08:49, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>> On 04/26/16 21:13, John R Pierce wrote:
>>>> On 4/26/2016 6:45 PM, Jack Bailey wrote:
>>>>> Today someone in a meeting claimed the Bourne shell is deprecated,
>>>>> one of the reasons being it supposedly has security issues.  Well
>>>>> that's all news to me, and I cannot find anything online to
>>>>> corroborate the claim.  Is this true, is it a bash vs. Bourne FUD,
>>>>> or something else?
>>>> there's no Bourne shell in CentOS anyways, /bin/sh is a symlink to
>>>> /bin/bash...
>>>>
>>>> last OS I can think of with an actual Bourne shell was Solaris.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The various *BSD's have & use the actual Bourne shell ....
>>>
>>>
>> Which one? All the BSDs I know of use the Almquist Shell except for
>> OpenBSD which uses a patched version of the Public Domain Korn Shell
>>
>>
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> NetBSD 6.1.5 uses the Bourne shell by default for root logins & uses
> it for the rc.d system. FreeBSD 9.3 Release has it installed because
> it is needed for the rc.d system. All I can vouch for ....
>
>
I'm pretty sure that's a variant of the Almquist Shell*
*

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Pouar