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From: tporczyk@best.com (Tony Porczyk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Serious brain damage in /bin/sh for FreeBSD 2.1.5
Date: 15 Dec 1996 04:20:36 -0800
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:

>tporczyk@best.com (Tony Porczyk) wrote:
>> Count me as another vote for Jordan's suggestion.  

>Btw., much of the bloat of the /bin/sh is due to the bloat that comes
>from libreadline.  If somebody's going to unbloat the latter, and
>submits us diffs, we certainly don't mind. ;-)

Would getting rid of those features be a reasonable solution?  "toor"
account provides that right now.  I've always believed that specialized
tools are best.  Let's keep /bin/sh lean and mean.

t.
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