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From: conor@Glacier.ARPA (Conor Rafferty)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Alternate Shells
Message-ID: <10672@Glacier.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 03:52:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: Glacier.10672
Posted: Tue Aug 13 03:52:21 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 15-Aug-85 08:20:14 EDT
Reply-To: conor@Glacier.UUCP (Conor Rafferty)
Organization: Stanford University, IC Laboratory
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Summary: Why is chsh fascist?

A quickie: 4.2BSD chsh does not allow the user to specify alternative
shells - only "sh" and "csh" are permitted. Why is this? It seems
ironically inappropriate in UNIX, where the shell is ``an ordinary,
swappable user program'' and ``user-selectable system interfaces [...]
become essentially trivial to implement'' [Ritchie & Thompson CACM 1974].


Conor Rafferty                  conor@su-glacier.arpa
231A Applied Electronics Lab.   conor@su-sierra.arpa
Stanford University Ca.94305	decwrl!glacier!conor
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