We want to allow builds in chroots that lack /bin/sh. Thus, system(3) and popen(3) need to be tweaked to use the right shell. For the bootstrap glibc, we just use whatever `sh' can be found in $PATH. The final glibc instead uses the hard-coded absolute file name of `bash'. --- a/sysdeps/posix/system.c +++ b/sysdeps/posix/system.c @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ do_system (const char *line) __posix_spawnattr_setflags (&spawn_attr, POSIX_SPAWN_SETSIGDEF | POSIX_SPAWN_SETSIGMASK); - status = __posix_spawn (&pid, SHELL_PATH, 0, &spawn_attr, + status = posix_spawnp (&pid, SHELL_NAME, 0, &spawn_attr, (char *const[]){ (char*) SHELL_NAME, (char*) "-c", (char *) line, NULL }, --- a/libio/iopopen.c +++ b/libio/iopopen.c @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ spawn_process (posix_spawn_file_actions_t *fa, FILE *fp, const char *command, return false; } - if (__posix_spawn (&((_IO_proc_file *) fp)->pid, _PATH_BSHELL, fa, 0, + if (posix_spawnp (&((_IO_proc_file *) fp)->pid, "sh", fa, 0, (char *const[]){ (char*) "sh", (char*) "-c", (char *) command, NULL }, __environ) != 0) return false;