On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Garrett Cooper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Jul 5, 2012, at 10:45 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: >> >>> >>> On 7/5/12 6:38 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>>>> inexperienced users. >>>>> >>>>> Having to enable it manually defeats its very purpose. >>>> >>>> so is FreeBSD future direction to be moron-OS just like linux is now, or >>>> is that just another stupid idea on that forum that came and... will pass? >>>> >>>> Quite important. There are still people that want normal OS. >>> >>> >>> Just because you don't like the idea doesn't make it stupid, and just >>> because it comes from linux doesn't make it bad. >> >> Both true. However, if the database lookups took a long time, or had a high >> overhead to maintain, then it would be stupid to have on by default. > > Here's a *random* thought to consider. This seems like a feature that > FreeNAS/PC-BSD/etc (Linux/Windows/other OS convert) type thing might > want -- so maybe the feature should exist (but be off) in FreeBSD and > exist (and be on) in custom FreeBSD distros where users aren't > necessarily expected to know FreeBSD.
And FWIW, this can exist as a *port* which is LD_PRELOADed (or use some other LD* hack) as an opt-in for a select set of shells. -Garrett PS I personally don't care about this feature on FreeBSD, but I understand how to use FreeBSD. I sometimes find it helpful on other OSes like Debian that I don't actively use all of the time. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
