Re: [HEADSUP] making /bin/sh the default shell for root

On Sep 23, 2021, at 3:01 PM, Lucas Nali de Magalhães <rollingbits@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Sep 22, 2021, at 5:38 AM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote:
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>> TL;DR: this is not a proposal to deorbit csh from base!!! (…)
> 
> I'm used to see FreeBSD remembered as a traditional OS full of professionalism
> and open to innovation. The front door for the BSD world and an OS that doesn't
> copy Linux. But more and more I'm seeing that BSD will need a new front door
> soon, that this OS is becoming more and more another Linux, that professionalism
> is being left aside and that innovation is being undone and/or simply erased.
> I wish I were about to write that it's the first time in a lot of time that I see a problem
> being systematically recreated but this isn't true either. And I feel sad I'm being
> getting used to this, too.
> 
> Mark Millard found that LLVM multi-threaded linker is buggy on Armv7 and reported
> it in another thread. I commented on it, even. It wasn't mention in that thread that the
> numbers there shows another problem recreated that must be solved again. The
> processes there were killed *before* virtual memory started to being heavily used. This
> goes against the intended use of virtual memory. If virtual memory isn't used it's lost
> resource: a thing that must be removed from the system, optimized away. In that
> specific case, virtual memory should have entered into place, being fully filled and then
> the process will be killed. And just to be complete, the non-debuggability of LLVM were
> a known problem of LLVM by the time of the discussions that lead to it's import in the
> tree.

And, by mentioning problems needing solution, I received:

Post to freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org denied: Re: [HEADSUP] making /bin/sh the default shell for root

This used to not be a problem. I know of what followed were the truth and I've no intention in changing
my status about this. And this huge thread is about a cosmetic change. Fantastic!

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