15 Dec
2011
15 Dec
'11
12:23 p.m.
...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).
Urr? Do you mean
the whole /etc/shells thing? That has been around for a very long time.
Not all that long. I think it was post-4.3, wasn't it? Maybe even
post-4.4Lite, though I'm fuzzier on that, since I never used anything
post-4.4 until I first got involved with NetBSD.
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