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Chad Perrin <perrin <at> apotheon.com> writes:

> > That’s a FreeBSD® specific issue though. Other operating systems
> > did the sensible thing ages ago ☺
> 
> What exactly is "the sensible thing"?

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/user/
user.c.diff?r1=1.116&r2=1.117&only_with_tag=MAIN

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20050328171714&thres=0&mode=expanded

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.miros.cvs/3279

bye,
//mirabilos
-- 
FWIW, I'm quite impressed with mksh interactively. I thought it was much
*much* more bare bones. But it turns out it beats the living hell out of
ksh93 in that respect. I'd even consider it for my daily use if I hadn't
wasted half my life on my zsh setup. :-) -- Frank Terbeck in #!/bin/mksh