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Date:      Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:06:20 +0000
From:      Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To:        rwatson@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything
Message-ID:  <E1AOgdo-0006Kd-00@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1031124104428.61465G-100000@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <20031124092346.F63116@sbk-gw.sibnet.ru>

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Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>Someone must be using /bin/sh as a shell, because apparently someone
>spent a lot of time adding things like character input editing, filename
>completion, etc.  We even use "sh" as the default in adduser(8).

Command-line editing is required for POSIX compliance.

Tony.
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