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SubjectRe: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman
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> > true and false are bash builtins, so who cares?
> (t)csh users and sysad's using /bin/false for a shell in /etc/passwd

Its generally held to be a better idea to use /dev/null. This avoids
a shell exec and any risk of some clever environment variable attack


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