From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GJKyg-000876-Dv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:11:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k822AOTW020041; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 02:10:24 GMT Received: from smtpq3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl (smtpq3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl [213.51.146.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8226IuJ006434 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 02:06:18 GMT Received: from [213.51.146.188] (port=44732 helo=smtp3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl) by smtpq3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1GJKtm-00004x-9t for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2006 04:06:18 +0200 Received: from cc117081-a.gorre1.fr.home.nl ([217.120.145.219]:42966 helo=manuel.fawlty.mine.nu) by smtp3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1GJKtk-0006PL-MJ for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2006 04:06:16 +0200 From: Harm Geerts To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Dash as /bin/sh? Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 04:06:15 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <2102237.F9AAudgNz4@work.message-center.info> <200609011633.01238.harmgeerts@home.nl> <20060901162102.719ebf45@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060901162102.719ebf45@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609020406.15888.harmgeerts@home.nl> X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Neem contact op met support@home.nl voor meer informatie X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Archives-Salt: fd318413-6898-4c89-980f-297abb11a8e2 X-Archives-Hash: 5f63dc842f009d30021390b5d78e5ebe 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) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list