git: dcb65c5a94d4 - main - csh: Remove hardlink /.cshrc

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From: Mark Millard <marklmi_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 14:50:06 UTC

Emmanuel Vadot <manu_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote on
Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 07:57:37 UTC :

> The branch main has been updated by manu:
> 
> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=dcb65c5a94d4c622b1d486847dc20488f59974e7
> 
> commit dcb65c5a94d4c622b1d486847dc20488f59974e7
> Author: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@FreeBSD.org>
> AuthorDate: 2024-05-27 13:12:18 +0000
> Commit: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@FreeBSD.org>
> CommitDate: 2024-05-29 07:56:58 +0000
> 
> csh: Remove hardlink /.cshrc
> 
> Remove this historical artifact.
> csh will try to use /.csrch if the user has no home directory defined which
> is rather unlikely (To be exact if the concatenation of $HOME and "/.cshrc"
> fail which is the same thing).
> 
> Also, with this change pkg will happily handle 3way merge for /root/.cshrc
> 
> Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D45382
> Reviewed by: emaste, imp
> Sponsored by: Beckhoff Automation GmbH & Co. KG
> . . .

What of the /.profile vs. /root/.profile hard linking? Do those have
have the same issues and the same solution?

===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com