[Mageia-dev] bashishms

[Frank Griffin]

On 03/01/2012 05:20 AM, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 11:12:36AM +0100, Remco Rijnders wrote:
>> Looking at a recent bugreport [1] I see that /etc/profile sources
>> everything under /etc/profile.d/*.sh no matter what shell is being
>> used. In this case this resulted in a small annoyance for the user
>> as one of the scripts under there uses a bashishm that's not
>> supported in all shells we ship.
> Those scripts should only use "sh" compatible things. Relying on bash
> features is a bug (extension is .sh, not .bash).
>
IIRC there was a concerted effort in the Mandriva days to eliminate 
bashisms in init scripts because (pre-systemd) there was a move to 
replace bash with dash for initscripts.  Backsliding ?