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Date:      Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:17:30 -0500 (EST)
From:      Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
To:        Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r40762 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq
Message-ID:  <alpine.GSO.1.10.1301271715280.9389@multics.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <201301271251.r0RCpA6l036526@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201301271251.r0RCpA6l036526@svn.freebsd.org>

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On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, Eitan Adler wrote:

> Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml	Sun Jan 27 12:51:07 2013	(r40761)
> +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml	Sun Jan 27 12:51:10 2013	(r40762)
> @@ -3018,7 +3018,7 @@ kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC -&gt; i82
>
> 	  <para>The existing implementation is our best effort at
> 	    meeting as many of these requirements simultaneously as we
> -	    can.  In order to keep <command>/bin/sh</command> small,
> +	    can.  To keep <command>/bin/sh</command> small,
> 	    we have not provided many of the convenience features that
> 	    other shells have.  That is why other more
> 	    featureful shells like

/bin/sh is less minimal than it used to be; I seem to recall jilles 
opining that it may be useful as a login shell at this point.  It may be 
worth changing this answer accordingly.

-Ben



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