Re: environment settings

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2008-06-20 23:26:49 -0700, Wayne Davison wrote:
> The problem I ran into with setting variables in .zshenv is that they
> can override settings you want to affect a program and/or script when
> you don't expect it.  For instance, if you need to debug a C program
> that is run inside a script with a custom PATH.  You setup the custom
> PATH and run the C program under gdb, and discover that your PATH isn't
> set right for the C program.  This is because gdb starts the program
> under an instance of $SHELL, which will source .zshenv, and if you're
> setting PATH inside, that blasts the PATH setting you're expecting.

I'd say that this is a bug of gdb if it doesn't restore the intended
$PATH (a bit like what libtool does, AFAIK). BTW, isn't $SHELL for
the user?

Note this I really want zsh subshells I start to be run with a
cleaned-up environment (this is a *user* choice).

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