From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by archone.tamu.edu id <22531>; Fri, 23 Aug 1991 17:09:25 -0500 From: Byron Rakitzis To: rc Subject: rcmain Message-Id: <91Aug23.170925cdt.22531@archone.tamu.edu> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1991 17:09:13 -0500 I think /usr/lib/rcmain is wrong for 2 reasons: 1) I don't think the sysadmin should have control over what the user's shell does at startup. I have had logins on too many systems which print long and useless /etc/motd's and other garbage, or insist on setting the terminal a particular way, etc. etc. 2) I don't want rc to open a file every time it starts up. I may use use rc functions, but I also use a LOT of shell scripts, and I don't want to have to deal with the whole "csh -f" issue, etc. ad nauseam. Opening a file every time rc starts may be good for plan9 where they presumably cache files very effectively, but this is just not the case on a lot of Unix systems. As Boyd said, let's keep the shell stable. I am frankly getting quite tired of maintaining rc these days, and there's nothing I'd love more than to be able to release version 1.1. Before that happens there are 2 or 3 moderately big/important things that need to be done to rc, but after that has happened, I would really like to set this program in clay, if not in stone.