From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 26 09:52:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA03868 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 09:52:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cheddar.netmonger.net (cheddar.netmonger.net [209.54.21.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA03860 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 09:52:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@cheddar.netmonger.net) Received: (from chris@localhost) by cheddar.netmonger.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA06035; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:51:33 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19981026125133.A2717@netmonger.net> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:51:33 -0500 From: Christopher Masto To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Shells for you and shells for me References: <3633C8F8.EF8E14D5@null.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Chuck Robey on Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 08:27:24PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just keep the damn /bin/sh we have now. Who actually uses it as their login shell? Nobody. It's there to write /bin/sh scripts, which by their very nature should be FreeBSD-specific or else extremely lowest-common-denominator. If there are bugs affecting the latter, they can be fixed. Do people really want better "sh compatability"? I don't think that's what this is about. I think the semiconscious desire is to have tab completion in single-user mode, which is not at all related to compatability for sh scripts. My only problem with the sh we have now is that weird signal-handling thing that, IIRC, got fixed and then unfixed because of side effects. The only time I run into compatability problems is when I'm installing some Linux thing that mistakenly uses a bash feature in an sh script. Personally, I use zsh, weenie that I am. -- Christopher Masto Director of Operations S NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net SSS http://www.netmonger.net \_/ What we'll all end up doing if Netscape doesn't play better is we will have instantiated the Microsoft Network. We'll just call it the Internet. - GEOFFREY MOORE, Marketing Guru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message