Tremendously helps when running on at least Ubuntu, with dash as
the system shell (ie. /bin/sh points to dash).
Reported by a few people, of which:
leming, ccct and ccole on IRC
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
(transplanted from 30c89d1f74a4fee73517b4ed67e843be6885447e)