I don't buy it. First, why would a Linux-based jailbreak install a binary for bash-3.2, when that version is going on 13 years old? Second, there's nothing that requires Apple to make the GPL sources available in both…
This would be bash-0.93, around March, 1989.
At least the last time I looked at a jailbroken iOS device, it opened a terminal running bash-3.2 (the same version as on macOS). It's there, you just can't get to it.
Nobody is irreplaceable.
I trust Brian's memory on this. The original email that he and I exchanged about readline from 1989 referred to readline.c as a single source file, was it part of a separate library then? I, unfortunately, don't have…
I don't buy it. First, why would a Linux-based jailbreak install a binary for bash-3.2, when that version is going on 13 years old? Second, there's nothing that requires Apple to make the GPL sources available in both…
This would be bash-0.93, around March, 1989.
At least the last time I looked at a jailbroken iOS device, it opened a terminal running bash-3.2 (the same version as on macOS). It's there, you just can't get to it.
Nobody is irreplaceable.
I trust Brian's memory on this. The original email that he and I exchanged about readline from 1989 referred to readline.c as a single source file, was it part of a separate library then? I, unfortunately, don't have…