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Date:      Tue, 28 Jul 2020 07:55:22 -0400
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: change in tcsh behavior
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From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To: Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: change in tcsh behavior
In-Reply-To: <bdd8326c-ce1a-2eb3-27f7-57e30b10597d@FreeBSD.org>
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Hello:

>  >   > 	How do I go back to the old output?
>  >   
>  >   Set sysctl kern.tty_info_kstacks to 0.
>
>  > 	Umm ... is there a reason this isn't the default?
>  
>  I think the idea was that it is useful enough to enable it by
>  default. Otherwise, it would be really hard to discover it. This
>  change was well received by various developers, and it also had an
>  revision where the default was changed from 1 to 2 (or something)
>  to make it a little bit more compact.

	And if it makes their life easier, then I approve.
	However:
	1) something visibly changed, that
	2) affects the default system shell and therefore a _lot_ of
		users, many of which like the old way 
	3) without warning or documentation (e.g. a single line entry in
		src/UPDATING), and figuring out what happened is, in your
		words "really hard to discover" for the casual user.


			Respectfully,


				Robert Huff



		



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