Hello,

I'm working on a project with Google Summer of Code and the FreeBSD organization to port PowerShell -- as well as the .NET SDK -- to the FreeBSD platform. So far, I've successfully compiled both native (libpsl-native) and managed parts of the PowerShell code on FreeBSD.

At first, three libpsl tests were failing: IsFileTest.RootIsFile, GetUserFromPid.Success and LocaleTest.Success. The last one was just a missing LANG env variable, so as soon as I set it, the test passed. But the first two ones required code changes, which I'm submitting as a PR with questions I had related to specific lines, but they are now ALL passing.

However, the resulting PowerShell build is misbehaving in some ways and I'd like some guidance as to what I should look for:

• This is what I'm getting for the shell prompt: PS Alias:/>.
• Running any cmdlet gets me a not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function... error.
• Typing anything in results in repeated characters. For example, if I type in Get-Help, this is what I get: PS Alias:/> GGeGetGet-Get-HGet-HeGet-HelGet-Help. Although, as I press Enter, the actual thing that gets read is Get-Help, and not the long string with repeated characters.

This is what my $PSVersionTable looks like:

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      6.1.0-preview.3
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    v6.1.0-preview.3-59-ge56a6c4bc9c42ba0d0a4c413f31d4508c7a65b75
OS                             FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE #0 r321309: Fri Jul 21 02:08:28 UTC 2017   ...
Platform                       Unix
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

cc @DragonSA @davidchisnall @SteveL-MSFT