Importing mksh in base

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> On 0125T2110, Gleb Popov wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 8:58 PM Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I would like to import mksh in base, https://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm
> > > And make it the default root shell (not necessary in one step)
> > >
> > > Why:
> > > 1/ it is tiny 400k (in the packaged version) all other shells fitting the
> > > expectation are bigger
> > > 2/ it's default frontend in interactive mode is very close to what most
> > > people
> > > are used to with bash
> > 
> > 
> > Are there FreeBSD users that are used to bash? If not, this proposal looks
> > like another "let's do like Linux" thing.
> 
> To be honest I'd expect most FreeBSD users to be used to bash.  I know
> I was, until few years ago I've moved to zsh.

You can expect it, and you might be able to collect some data to
confirm that, but without that data this is a wag.

> Most people nowadays come from Linux background, sometimes also OSX.

I suspect, without data though, we get more people coming from Windows
to FreeBSD than we do from Linux to FreeBSD.

> aND THat means their primary shell, the one they are used to, is bash,
> since it's the default on both of those platforms.  It's fine to
> provide something different if it is actually better - but being different
> just for the sake of it, like defaulting to a shell that can't handle
> a basic "2>&1", is not.

This is none sense.  csh syntax for 2>&1 is simple >&.


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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org