Thread: Shellshock? Maemo?
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reinob is offline reinob
2014-09-26 , 20:16
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#14
Originally Posted by Estel View Post
It's quite funny, considering how some guy (our own, private version of poettering, if anyone would be in doubt who I'm referring to) tried to push bash into everyone's throat in Maemo Community, calling ash "messybox" and (sucessfuly) pretending busybox-power integration into CSSU.

Yes - if anyone haven't noticed, we still doesn't have busybox-power in CSSU - where it belongs - and need to install it via package that does binary file replacement... Mind this day and big middle finger to you, busybox haters.

/Estel
Don't know what your point is. Really. busybox is a MESSYBOX whose only advantage is only visible on severly limited systems -- not the N900.

IMHO bash or dash would be a much saner default. Plus the standard Linux coreutils instead of busybox clones.

And as for security: wait until someone starts looking at busybox. Then all those people having non-updatable appliances running web servers with crappy CGI's running as root (i.e. most routers or NASes) will regret it.

I can't wait to have a working debian on my N900. F*ck Maemo.
(I'm usually more polite, blame it on the Oktoberfest).
 

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