From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 19 13:24:46 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 606581065670 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:24:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthewstory@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1180D8FC08 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:24:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vbbey12 with SMTP id ey12so4460535vbb.13 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:24:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=95+DGns6H25g1RX/AaqTn7RuUhLYD4U/8N5s2VgRi4c=; b=cZhT3rQPnpboVKHZTwKiOw2YDjiYHdknHaC5TbOGb9PAqcfrrXf/vD/dRVGJ8GF6C9 ldu9isNiUaREEhQ0s/dTzEGSqLWag18Kg/rGHUIys8Y7PLczqTlfdNjkehzEmOTi379K 0uuZluPmg9OveWlI9dNz24t/SWX1SRj2dc1JU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.31.36 with SMTP id x4mr12441222vdh.121.1326979484951; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:24:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.52.159.69 with HTTP; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:24:44 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <20120119031255.GA95131@DataIX.net> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:24:44 -0500 Message-ID: From: Matthew Story To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: intent of tab-completion in /bin/sh in 9.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:24:46 -0000 forgot to reply-to list ... On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Matthew Story wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > [...snip] > >> It would be nice if the completion made it down to 8.X. >> > > Agreed, on my 9.0 install, I have actually forgone my typical bash > install, due mostly to the presence of tab completion, would be nice to > remove bash from my 8.X systems as well. > > >> As for replacing roots shell (csh) I do not even see that as needed and a >> goal of mine to spend as little time as neccesary in root. > > > Always a good role. > > >> The shell while I am in root never made a difference to me. Others may >> see differently. >> > > Was more-so just curious about the direction of this. I'm not a huge > (t)csh fan, but understand there are historical reasons here ... not sure > if historical reasons always justify continued support, but changing csh -> > sh for root (and removing toor) might be non-POLA for negligible benefit > (as you suggest). > > >> >> -- >> ;s =; >> > > > > -- > regards, > matt > -- regards, matt