Comment by lokar

1 day ago

It’s a hack with many disadvantages. Sometimes a hack is the right answer, but the kernel should it add a primitive for it.

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MBCook  1 day ago

Should bash link in every program the user might want? Load them up as dynamic libraries?

  • lokar  5 hours ago

    Bash as an interactive tool is very different. It is used to run an almost arbitrary number of things, and a pretty low rate.

    Bash as a programming language is just a bad idea.

  • m132  20 hours ago

    Node, Python, PowerShell, and the rest do (almost) just that. launchd and systemd famously strived to remove as much shell from the start up process as possible because it was harming boot times and introducing unpredictability.