selfupdate is not working
Garrett Honeycutt
gh at garretthoneycutt.com
Tue Sep 30 14:22:50 PDT 2014
On 9/30/14 5:12 PM, Ned Deily wrote:
> In article
> <CAKFCL4Xoq+ksMPLqL8sDGwLiAKDf8572WqKNNo7iCZMA5hDCxA at mail.gmail.com>,
> Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
>>> http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6495
>> sigh.
>>
>> Yes, I know about the patches. And I know why they didn't do the switch,
>> especially considering that it's normally too large a change to consider
>> without a major release as opposed to a patch... but IMO bash as /bin/sh is
>> so boneheaded as to be worth an exception. (Yes, I feel this way about
>> Linux as well. I was fully supportive when Debian switched its /bin/sh to
>> dash.)
>
> You know and I know that ain't gonna happen. On the other hand, I
> believe it is true that OS X systems are, in general, less likely to be
> vulnerable to bash security issues in that (1) bash is likely less used
> for system daemons et al, in part thanks to launchd and (2) most OS X
> users don't (know to) open up their systems (and their network
> firewalls) to potentially dangerous network services.
>
Hi,
http://goo.gl/ubrlfR :)
Cheers,
-g
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