Re: Sysinst default root login shell

[Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost>]

Hi,

Matthew Mondor wrote:
> I agree.
>
> I respect that some users prefer csh, but noone proposed to remove it,
> only to change the default selection.  For technical reasons, many
> prefer sh, and I doubt that Linux has anything to do with it (please
> forbid my short history research results):
>
> The Bourne shell (1977, AT&T Version 7 Unix) was the inspiration for
> ksh (Bell Labs, 1983), which in turn has inspired POSIX 1003.2 and
> 1003.2a requirements for shell.  Our shell seems to be a Bourne SVR4
> variant shell clone (Almquist, 1989), that has evolved to include some
> POSIX ksh-like features and improved interactive features.
>
> I have no authority, but since opinion was requested, mine is that
> /bin/sh as a default root shell makes sense for a modern NetBSD.
Well, but for me "BSD" is synonym for csh, (although admittedly, I use 
tcsh mostly), VI, tcp sockets.
When Darwin / MacOS-X changed the default shell I felt betrayed as when 
they changed CPU architecture...
Just my two cents of course.

Riccardo