[CentOS] Bourne shell deprecated?
William A. Mahaffey III
wam at hiwaay.net
Wed Apr 27 08:56:32 UTC 2016
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 ....
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William A. Mahaffey III
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