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RE: PATCH: Re: adding a toplevel zsh.spec.in file
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- From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <zefram@xxxxxxxx>, <zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: RE: PATCH: Re: adding a toplevel zsh.spec.in file
- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 20:37:26 +0400
- Importance: Normal
- In-reply-to: <E13EZTz-0001E4-00@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>
> /etc/profile is there to set up bits of the environment that
> pertain to
> the local system. It's an adjunct to login; it does the new
> mail check
> on systems where login doesn't, it sets MAIL if login
> doesn't, and it can
> set TAPE and stuff if that's really necessary on that system.
> My point is
> that the things that need to be done are the same regardless
> of what shell
> the user prefers to use, and so there shouldn't be any
> zsh-specific stuff.
>
> Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>
> Perhaps we can locally emulate sh when sourcing /etc/profile? We have
> the local emulation logic working for functions, and
> /etc/profile can't
> possibly get confused by that, because it can't contain any setopt
> commands. The $0 issue remains. What does $0 get examined for?
>
Pretty much everything that you described above + output of /etc/motd,
setting terminals parameter depending of terminal type (there are
several standard ones that are normally shipped with systems) happens
under
case $0 in
-sh|-ksh|-jsh|-rsh)
Do not ask me why; I have not written it and have no chance to change
it. Actually, since I'm running under X I do not care about /etc/profile
anymore; it is sourced by Xsession so environment gets set up anyway (to
account for optional software that may add something to /etc/profile)
and I do not care about setting terminal under dtterm :-)
So, unless this is an issue on more than one system, we can probably
ignore it. But if we are going to locally emulate /bin/sh - why not
pretend, we *are* -sh? :-)
-andrej
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