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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!voskovec.radio.cz!hammer.uoregon.edu!csulb.edu!news.sgi.com!news1.best.com!nntp1.best.com!shellx!tporczyk From: tporczyk@best.com (Tony Porczyk) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Serious brain damage in /bin/sh for FreeBSD 2.1.5 Date: 15 Dec 1996 04:20:36 -0800 Organization: BEST Internet Communications Lines: 19 Message-ID: <tporczyk.850652227@shellx> References: <stanbE1M2D2.38I@netcom.com> <329E96C5.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <32A17168.446B9B3D@freebsd.org> <57tla3$k68@newshost.lanl.gov> <tporczyk.849540106@shellx> <58sstm$jti@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: shellx.best.com X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #6 (NOV) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32639 j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >tporczyk@best.com (Tony Porczyk) wrote: >> Count me as another vote for Jordan's suggestion. >Btw., much of the bloat of the /bin/sh is due to the bloat that comes >from libreadline. If somebody's going to unbloat the latter, and >submits us diffs, we certainly don't mind. ;-) Would getting rid of those features be a reasonable solution? "toor" account provides that right now. I've always believed that specialized tools are best. Let's keep /bin/sh lean and mean. t. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Porczyk * tporczyk@infobound.com * San Jose, California GIT/ED d++$(!d) s++:++ a? C++++ USLB++++$ P+ E--- W(--) N++ !k w-- M- V? b- PS+++@ PE++ O X-- Y++@ PGP-- t+@ 5++ R* D---- e* V-- h* y** r+++(*)+++(*)>? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------