Hi John,
On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 16:07:53 -0700 John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 5/29/24 3:57 AM, Emmanuel Vadot wrote: > > The branch main has been updated by manu: > > > > URL: > > https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=dcb65c5a94d4c622b1d486847dc20488f59974e7 > > > > commit dcb65c5a94d4c622b1d486847dc20488f59974e7 > > Author: Emmanuel Vadot <m...@freebsd.org> > > AuthorDate: 2024-05-27 13:12:18 +0000 > > Commit: Emmanuel Vadot <m...@freebsd.org> > > CommitDate: 2024-05-29 07:56:58 +0000 > > > > csh: Remove hardlink /.cshrc > > > > Remove this historical artifact. > > csh will try to use /.csrch if the user has no home directory defined > > which > > is rather unlikely (To be exact if the concatenation of $HOME and > > "/.cshrc" > > fail which is the same thing). > > > > Also, with this change pkg will happily handle 3way merge for > > /root/.cshrc > > > > Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D45382 > > Reviewed by: emaste, imp > > Sponsored by: Beckhoff Automation GmbH & Co. KG > > FWIW, this happens anytime you use /bin/csh as root's shell and boot into > single user mode. Similar to /.profile being used for single user mode if > root's shell is /bin/sh. Given we've changed the default shell for root, > then it's fine to do this change, but that probably should have been noted > in the commit log (in part to serve as a reminder so we don't remove the > links for sh). I've thought about single user and csh and yes that's a case where csh will try to use /.cshrc but root shell doesn't matter here as you need to specify /bin/csh as the init prompt for single user mode, the default is still /bin/sh no matter what. For /.profile, /bin/sh in single-user mode does have $HOME point to /root so I think we can remove safely the /.profile hardlink. I haven't looked at why /bin/csh doesn't have $HOME set but if someone cares about using /bin/csh in single user mode (again nothing to do with root shell) they probably wants to do something about setting $HOME to /root/. Cheers, -- Emmanuel Vadot <m...@bidouilliste.com> <m...@freebsd.org>
