Importing mksh in base

[Cy Schubert]

On January 25, 2019 8:57:51 AM PST, 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 and shells as default root shell on other BSD and
>most
>linuxes
>3/ from my narrow window csh as a default root shell is one of the
>major
>complaint (usually the first thing a user get faced to) from new comers
>and
>also for some long timers who are reinstalling a machine and have not
>yet
>installed/configured a bourne compatible shell
>
>What this proposal is _NOT_ about:
>1/ the removal of tcsh from base
>2/ any kid of denial of the quality and interest or features of csh
>
>What do you think?
>Best regards,
>Bapt

Why not ksh93 instead? It is the original and authoritative Korn shell. EPL is compatible with the BSD license. Personally, I've been toying with the idea of importing ksh93 for a while now.

As to replacing root's shell, replacing tcsh is a large POLA violation.  Maybe give users the option at install time instead. 
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