Nikolai Kondrashov

Yes, good idea, thank you, @trevor-vaughan.

At the moment, if the configured shell doesn't exist, session is aborted. I don't think tlog-rec-session should do any falling back if the shell doesn't exist. It's supposed to be...

Actual values that go into the installed configuration files are in `m4/tlog/*_conf_schema.m4` files. The shell in particular is in `m4/tlog/rec_session_conf_schema.m4`.

Yeah, I agree that `/bin/sh` can be assumed, but, strictly speaking, `/bin/bash` cannot. However, could you perhaps list some cases where `/bin/bash` is not available, which we should care about?

Ah, I see. Well, I'm not sure if tlog would even build on FreeBSD (provided of course journal support is removed). Although I would like it to. I would like...

A compromise might be adding a configure option to specify the default shell to make it easier to build and package for systems where `/bin/bash` is not normally present.

I would prefer not to have configure detect the distro. That would be generally unreliable, unexpected by maintainers, and hard to debug. What are Linux distros which don't have bash...

OK, no, what's likely is the recording asking the terminal for reports, and the playback terminal dutifully replying.

It doesn't seem like we can stop the terminal from replying to the control sequences and we can't read the control keys from anywhere but the terminal. We should either...

Preferably, this should also conform to any official or de-facto standards in terminal control.