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Re: The bash transition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Tue Mar 10 11:06:12 2009
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:00:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> Additionally, I wonder if we should bump ~/.generation, so we can identify
> tcsh users who actively chose it as opposed to those who have it because it
> was the old default. I'm not yet sure when such a case would be useful, but
> this is a significant change, and the overhead involved in bumping
> ~/.generation is minimal, so unless there's a really good reason not to, I'd
> like to do that.
Keeping track of which accounts might have picked tcsh manually is
probably useful. However, since this value won't be needed in dotfiles or
anything, one should be able to compute this information up from the date
the user's account was created, without having to do anything in user home
directories.
-Tim Abbott
