Xfce Digest, Vol 90, Issue 40

[Edscott Wilson Garcia]

From: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org>
> > New requirements:
> >     bash (Ubuntu's use of dash is not adequate)
> >     librsvg >= 2.26.0
> >     cairo >= 1.8.10
> You do know that Ubuntu still has bash installed? Don't call it sh
> though.

Yes. That was the last fix to enter 4.6.4.

The problem with dash is the following: if you send dash a SIGTERM, dash
will terminate but leave child processes running.

IOW:
$dash -c xterm &
[1] 2025
$kill -SIGTERM 2025
$ps
2026 pts/0 00:00:00 xterm

The child process is still running. If you know how to tell dash to
forward a SIGTERM to child process, please let me know. I would rather
use dash (if available) since it is 1/10 the size of bash.



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cheers!

Edscott