Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 16:52:18 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@dmlb.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything Message-ID: <20031124005218.GA12820@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <017701c3b21f$f39bf340$43c8a8c0@orac> References: <20031123225117.GA24696@dragon.nuxi.com> <017701c3b21f$f39bf340$43c8a8c0@orac>
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On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 12:14:39AM -0000, Duncan Barclay wrote: > > From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> > > > I'll seriously argue against the 2nd point above. I don't know of a > > SINGLE person that uses /bin/sh as their interactive shell when > > multi-user. Not ONE. Every Bourne shell'ish user I've ever met uses > > Bash, AT&T ksh, pdksh, zsh. > > I don't know anyone that farms lama's, so there cannot be any lama farmers. One has to make a strong statement to get the people to come out of the woodwork. > computer$ grep dmlb /etc/passwd > dmlb:*:1166:1166:Duncan Barclay:/home/dmlb:/bin/sh Good. Now do you need NSS support? Do the benefits of supporting NSS in /bin/sh for you out-weigh the performance issue of building it dynamically? Couldn't you just as easily use the pdksh port? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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