Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 04:56:25 +0200 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> To: Alban Hertroys <haramrae@gmail.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org, "arch@freebsd.org" <arch@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] making /bin/sh the default shell for root Message-ID: <20210923025625.wtufdwbmq47qsxbv@aniel.nours.eu> In-Reply-To: <9A7E9AB0-1A59-4E8C-86EC-EFD8A3147112@gmail.com> References: <20210922083645.4vnoajyvwq6wfhdf@aniel.nours.eu> <9A7E9AB0-1A59-4E8C-86EC-EFD8A3147112@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 10:03:40PM +0200, Alban Hertroys wrote: > > > On 22 Sep 2021, at 10:36, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > TL;DR: this is not a proposal to deorbit csh from base!!! > > (…) > > > Recently our sh(1) has receive update to make it more user friendly in > > interactive mode: > > * command completion (thanks pstef@) > > * improvement in the emacs mode, to make it behave by default like other shells > > * improvement in the vi mode (in particular the vi edit to respect $EDITOR) > > * support for history as described by POSIX. > > > > This makes it a usable shell by default, which is why I would like to propose to > > make it the default shell for root starting FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE (not MFCed) > > My one concern is this: what is the impact of these usability improvements to sh on its usage in scripts? None, those are in a code path with doesn't get executed when in non interactive mode. Best regards, Bapt
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