Date: 09 Apr 2000 16:36:42 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>, obrien@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Import of tcsh into src/contrib/, replacing src/usr.bin/csh Message-ID: <xzp8zynnxxh.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai's message of "Sun, 9 Apr 2000 14:50:13 %2B0200" References: <20000406134916.A23265@dragon.nuxi.com> <4.3.1.2.20000407094800.00ac2970@gid.co.uk> <20000409145013.O1996@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
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Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> writes: > I can see no technical reason to support either tcsh or csh as root's > shell. > > To substantiate: > > - I have gone through our system supplied scripts, and as far as I was > able to find, none of them were dependant on csh. Even if csh scripts > were present they should be rewritten for /bin/sh, in order to be as > consistent as possible with the rest of the system. My only comment to anyone who would even consider using csh for anything more elaborate than 'exec /bin/sh -E', particularly - god forbid! - for scripting, is: <URL:http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/>; DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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