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. :-) -- -ChuckReceived on Wed May 04 2005 - 13:29:05 UTC
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