15 Dec
2011
15 Dec
'11
7:49 a.m.
[...] You
don't have to change the operating system to fix whatever
defective behaviour you've found in shells
To the extent that the shell is part of the OS, you do. And that's not
a totally unfair position; shells ship with OSes and are maintained as
part of OSes...and, in recent years, OSes have strated refusing to let
users change their shells to user-provided programs (a longstanding
peeve of mine, exacerbated by the broken design of the API behind it).