Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:51:33 -0500 From: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Shells for you and shells for me Message-ID: <19981026125133.A2717@netmonger.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810252016090.375-100000@picnic.mat.net>; from Chuck Robey on Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 08:27:24PM -0500 References: <3633C8F8.EF8E14D5@null.net> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810252016090.375-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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Just keep the damn /bin/sh we have now. Who actually uses it as their login shell? Nobody. It's there to write /bin/sh scripts, which by their very nature should be FreeBSD-specific or else extremely lowest-common-denominator. If there are bugs affecting the latter, they can be fixed. Do people really want better "sh compatability"? I don't think that's what this is about. I think the semiconscious desire is to have tab completion in single-user mode, which is not at all related to compatability for sh scripts. My only problem with the sh we have now is that weird signal-handling thing that, IIRC, got fixed and then unfixed because of side effects. The only time I run into compatability problems is when I'm installing some Linux thing that mistakenly uses a bash feature in an sh script. Personally, I use zsh, weenie that I am. -- Christopher Masto Director of Operations S NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net SSS http://www.netmonger.net \_/ What we'll all end up doing if Netscape doesn't play better is we will have instantiated the Microsoft Network. We'll just call it the Internet. - GEOFFREY MOORE, Marketing Guru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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