In message: <ddbd692bcfcae94e8417a228a95fbcfc_at_mac.com> Charles Swiger <cswiger_at_mac.com> writes: : I infer that POSIX compliance is not very important to you. I have POSIX_ME_HARDER defined in my environement :-) POSIX compliance for POSIX compliance sake isn't a goal. : > I'm not looking for a catalog of systems. I'm telling you why : > we are where we are today, and why things haven't changed: There's : > really no need and inertial keeps things BSDish. Most people never : > use the root shell directly, and all shell scripts are /bin/sh : > anyway... : : The fact that the /etc/rc scripts, cron, and similar tools involving : root's environment are all run using /bin/sh is one of the primary : reasons why root shell ought to be /bin/sh. There are newgroup FAQs : for various platforms which recommend against changing root's shell : from being a /bin/sh. That doesn't follow. All my shell scripts run /bin/sh, yet my default shell is /bin/tcsh. But like I've said twice now: There's lots of bigger problems in the tree, and a change like this could break things. There's enough breakage in the tree now. WarnerReceived on Wed May 04 2005 - 22:55:46 UTC
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