From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 4 15:29:05 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8365416A4CE for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 15:29:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36D2443D31 for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 15:29:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin01-en2 [10.13.10.146]) id j44FPWWO001608; Wed, 4 May 2005 08:25:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.1.245] (nfw1.codefab.com [199.103.21.225]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin01/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id j44FPU5p016932; Wed, 4 May 2005 08:25:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20050504132429.GA2105@uk.tiscali.com> References: <6.1.0.6.2.20050427001118.0327cd50@cobalt.antimatter.net> <52515.216.177.243.42.1114586501.localmail@webmail.dnswatch.com> <61359.216.177.243.35.1114722481.localmail@webmail.dnswatch.com> <20050429105416.GA94049@wedge.madpilot.net> <20050502195456.GA1226@uk.tiscali.com> <17015.43023.924186.422635@roam.psg.com> <20050504094000.GA1143@uk.tiscali.com> <20050504113817.GD22956@empiric.icir.org> <20050504132429.GA2105@uk.tiscali.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <5207b55e44478fa93e3689ad79b54f4d@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 11:25:30 -0400 To: Brian Candler X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: boot banner project X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 15:29:05 -0000 On May 4, 2005, at 9:24 AM, Brian Candler wrote: > (2) it's not a POSIX shell. > > For me, (2) is serious. I don't want to use a different syntax for > redirecting I/O, setting environment variables and looping over > arguments, > just to get tab-completion. [ ... ] > Now that /bin/sh has command history, I'd definitely vote for that to > be > made the default shell for root in FreeBSD-6, and then csh can be left > to > die in peace as it should have done years ago :-) Agreed. I consider it a serious misfortune that FreeBSD doesn't use /bin/sh as root's shell. On the other hand, it's easy enough to fix, so I haven't spent my time complaining about this. :-) -- -Chuck