Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:30:09 -0500 From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@freebsd.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/tcsh - Imported sources Message-ID: <20000415203009.B99830@holly.calldei.com> In-Reply-To: <20000416024118.A71475@lucifer.bart.nl> References: <imp@village.org> <20000415231805.33B311CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au> <20000416024118.A71475@lucifer.bart.nl>
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On Sunday, April 16, 2000, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > -On [20000416 01:20], Peter Wemm (peter@netplex.com.au) wrote: > >IMHO, the way to keep most people happy (or least unhappy :-]) is to finish > >the tcsh thing, and change root's shell to /bin/sh and probably change the > >default new-user shell to sh as well if it isn't already. > As I said before, csh/tcsh is not the standard shell needed for > POSIX/SUS(v2) compliance. > Scriptwriters should not depend on its presence, they should be writing > for /bin/sh instead. When will you rewrite vgrind(1) and rip out csh from under all the csh users' feet? Just because 80% of the people (if not more) think csh is horrible, doesn't mean that we should just completely remove it without putting anything remotely resembling it in its place. -- |Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> |Earth is 98% full...please delete anyone you can. `------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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