Subject: Re: Bug#547902: dash only reads the first character from pipe (bash reads whole line)

From: Netskin | Corin Langosch <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:34:40 +0200

Hi,

I'm still not sure if it's a kernel bug/misbehavior, as bash works fine 
on the same system. And even if it's a kernel bug, shouldn't dash 
contain the same work-around as bash seems to have?

Fact is, when upgrading debian (and so dash becomes the default shell) 
some applications break because of this. One example are munin plugins, 
which is where I discovered the bug/ regression. Changing the shebang 
line in the munin plugins from /bin/sh (symlink to /bin/dash) to 
/bin/bash solves the problems.

Corin