>>>>>       As I already wrote, vdev was working well with busybox's 
>>>>> ash.,
>>>>> replacing 'dash' with 'sh' in the shebang.

>>>>>       If the question is why Jude replaced /bin/sh with /bin/dash 
>>>>> in the
>>>>> middle of the development, I think it was to make sure to not 
>>>>> invoke
>>>>> bash. But (sorry for the repetition) I used to modify the shebang
>>>>> everytime I tested a new version, and there was never any issue 
>>>>> with
>>>>> the shell.
>>>> There is no question here. *If* the script in question uses dash
>>>> spuriously, ie, it doesn't use features specific to dash but is 
>>>> actually
>>>> a Bourne shell script, replacing /bin/dash with /bin/sh should be
>>>> fine. If not, stuff is going to break sooner or later, either 
>>>> because
>>>> /bin/sh isn't really dash (eg, someone might use bash for that) or
>>>> because of difference between the busybox and Debian (d)ash forks.

>>>      There shouldn't be any "feature specific to dash", by
>>> construction.
>> There are, "by construction". Eg, dash supports local, the POSIX 
>> /bin/sh
>> doesn't.
>     Then it seems Jude's scripts don't use that feature, and they 
> shouldn't.

>                  Didier