[debian-mysql] Bug#782550: mysql-server-5.5: Use /bin/bash instead of /bin/sh for mysqld_safe

[Frédéric Brière]

Package: mysql-server-5.5
Version: 5.5.41-0+wheezy1
Severity: wishlist

Due to a bug in dash (#782540), mysqld_safe will kill and restart mysqld
if the latter is stopped with SIGSTOP.  Apparently, some VPSes throttle
CPU usage by this mechanism.  Hilarity ensues.

Although this is not a bug in mysql per se, using /bin/bash instead of
/bin/sh (which is often dash) would effectively circumvent this bug,
without (I assume) any noticable impact.  (If you can afford to run
mysqld, surely you can handle bash as well.  <g>)

Note that mariadb already uses bash, albeit for a different reason (LP:
#675185).


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/3 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)