From owner-cvs-all Sun Jul 21 11:29:34 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C59637B400; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 11:29:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C50943E3B; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 11:29:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from baka@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1921) id 25C15AE27E; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 11:29:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 11:29:28 -0700 From: Jon Mini To: Bruce Evans Cc: Tim Robbins , cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/sh sh.1 Message-ID: <20020721182928.GJ31134@elvis.mu.org> References: <20020721180547.A29241@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20020721203021.D19918-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020721203021.D19918-100000@gamplex.bde.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 08:43:56PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > Right. I have tried removing those things before, and nothing except them > has made a very large difference for many years. libedit doesn't seem to > be very well engineered (it seems to cause more bloat than libreadline > despite being much smaller and doing less), but the getpwnam() bloat is > much larger and harder to fix. I have long contended that the only thing keeping me from using sh as my login shell full-time is one feature that libreadline has but libedit lacks (^R -> reverse incremental history search). Is there anything keeping us from using libreadline in sh? -- Jonathan Mini http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message