Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 11:25:30 -0400 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: boot banner project Message-ID: <5207b55e44478fa93e3689ad79b54f4d@mac.com> 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> <d904a5e7050428062443496e3@mail.gmail.com> <61359.216.177.243.35.1114722481.localmail@webmail.dnswatch.com> <20050429105416.GA94049@wedge.madpilot.net> <d904a5e705042912342621236b@mail.gmail.com> <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>
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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
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