Subject: Re: CVS commit: src
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/16/1999 13:37:56
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 10:05:53AM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com> writes:
> > On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 07:44:22PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > > 
> > > Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.Stanford.EDU> writes:
> > > > (I personally find both sh & csh repulsive but found csh less repulsive as
> > > > a root shell, and also liked having toor around).
> > > 
> > > Well, you can change the shell for root with a 30 second edit...
> > 
> > Yeah, and I could blow away NetBSD and install Linux or Solaris or even
> > "real" System V (I suppose that's SCO SVR5 today) if I wanted to, too.
> 
> You guys decided we didn't need "toor". I could have made the exact
> same arguments before.

What?  I can't even parse that.  Could you provide a little context so I
can know what "I" decided?  Or which arguments you could have made "before"
"I" "decided" it?

BSD Unix has shipped with /bin/csh as root's shell since at least 4.1 (I
appear to be unable to read my 3BSD tape).  Changing it because one (or a few,
or even many) developers grew up on System V and find csh unfamiliar is a
crock of smelly brown goo.

It's Net *BSD*.  If you want System V, you know where to find it.

Thor