The question is whether anybody has told the users that this command would be deprecated (or perhaps be replaced by "xrdfs")?
Even if all of these were different, we'd still have to deal with hardcoded legacy usage (e.g by experiments) and negotiate a phaseout (the crashes seem to have been from interactive use).
But for now I don't think the average user has any idea that they should not use this command. For "xrdcp" (which I guess was in a similar situation), the new "xrdcopy" became again "xrdcp" in 4.0, but not so for "xrd"/"xrdfs".
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