+1 from me. On Wed, 22 Sept 2021 at 12:31, Chris Stephan <chris.step...@live.com> wrote:
> I completely agree. It will save me the ‘/bin/sh’ at the beginning of each > ‘su -‘ session. Also, it will simplify building extra small FreeBSD images, > allowing an easier removal of ‘csh’. > > I use csh from time to time, but I do wish it would take a much more > explicit action so my brain has switched over to ‘csh mode’. I won’t lie > that I’ve pasted script into my terminal and spent time troubleshooting why > the commands didn’t work only to realize I forgot to change to /bin/sh > first. > > Chris Stephan > > Sent from FreeBSD > ________________________________ > From: owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org <owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org> > on behalf of Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org> > Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 3:36:45 AM > To: curr...@freebsd.org <curr...@freebsd.org>; a...@freebsd.org > <a...@freebsd.org> > Subject: [HEADSUP] making /bin/sh the default shell for root > > Hello, > > TL;DR: this is not a proposal to deorbit csh from base!!! > > For years now, csh is the default root shell for FreeBSD, csh can be > confusing > as a default shell for many as all other unix like settled on a bourne > shell > compatible interactive shell: zsh, bash, or variant of ksh. > > Recently our sh(1) has receive update to make it more user friendly in > interactive mode: > * command completion (thanks pstef@) > * improvement in the emacs mode, to make it behave by default like other > shells > * improvement in the vi mode (in particular the vi edit to respect $EDITOR) > * support for history as described by POSIX. > > This makes it a usable shell by default, which is why I would like to > propose to > make it the default shell for root starting FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE (not > MFCed) > > If no strong arguments has been raised until October 15th, I will make this > proposal happen. > > Again just in case: THIS IS NOT A PROPOSAL TO REMOVE CSH FROM BASE! > > Best regards, > Baptiste > >
