Re: boot banner project

From: Charles Swiger <cswiger_at_mac.com>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 11:25:30 -0400
On May 4, 2005, at 9:24 AM, Brian Candler wrote:
> (2) it's not a POSIX shell.
>
> For me, (2) is serious. I don't want to use a different syntax for
> redirecting I/O, setting environment variables and looping over 
> arguments,
> just to get tab-completion.
[ ... ]
> Now that /bin/sh has command history, I'd definitely vote for that to 
> be
> made the default shell for root in FreeBSD-6, and then csh can be left 
> to
> die in peace as it should have done years ago :-)

Agreed.  I consider it a serious misfortune that FreeBSD doesn't use 
/bin/sh as root's shell.  On the other hand, it's easy enough to fix, 
so I haven't spent my time complaining about this.  :-)

-- 
-Chuck
Received on Wed May 04 2005 - 13:29:05 UTC

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