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From: Harm Geerts <harmgeerts@home.nl>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Dash as /bin/sh?
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 04:06:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609020406.15888.harmgeerts@home.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060901162102.719ebf45@hactar.digimed.co.uk>

On Friday 01 September 2006 17:21, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > Speaking of which, you probably should see the shell used in the
> > scripts from the sys-apps/baselayout package. All shell scripts
> > use /bin/bash and not /bin/sh.
> >
> > So linking (d)ash as the default shell doesn't nearly have the impact
> > you'd like it to have.
>
> A 20% reduction in boot time is a reasonable impact IMO.

Any chance that was a fluke?

I've done a few reboots with bootchart to confirm this and I don't get any 
speedup. In fact /bin/sh is never called because the gentoo init scripts 
explicitly use bash. (sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.4-r7)
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-02  2:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-01  8:45 [gentoo-user] Dash as /bin/sh? Alexander Skwar
2006-09-01  9:17 ` asl.pavel
2006-09-01 10:13 ` Erik
2006-09-01 11:09   ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2006-09-01 11:03 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2006-09-01 14:05   ` Neil Bothwick
2006-09-01 14:33     ` [gentoo-user] " Harm Geerts
2006-09-01 15:21       ` Neil Bothwick
2006-09-02  2:06         ` Harm Geerts [this message]
2006-09-02  2:57           ` Jerry McBride
2006-09-02  5:58             ` Richard Fish
2006-09-02 18:10           ` Neil Bothwick
2006-09-02 18:38             ` Jerry McBride
2006-09-03 11:49               ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar

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