Importing mksh in base

[Bruce Evans]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2019, Gleb Popov wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 8:58 PM Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> 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

You should warm up with a more modest task, such as replacing vi by emacs
as the default editor.

> Are there FreeBSD users that are used to bash? If not, this proposal looks
> like another "let's do like Linux" thing.

I have used /bin/bash as the root shell for more about 20 years.  The
currently install version is slightly newer -- only about 15 years old
(bash-1.14.7(1) installed by mv'ing it from /usr/local/bin where some
port put it.

toor still uses csh, but I never use toor.

I still use /bin/sh and of course /bin/ed for the single user shell and
editing there, except on one system which is misconfigured with /usr
on the root partition so that vi is accidentally available for editing.
If need, I exec bin/bash from /bin/sh or mount /usr, but my /usr is
usually on nfs and most boot-time editing is to fix network
configuratation so that nfs is available.

Bruce