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Re: sh
- To: cygwin <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: sh
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 23:13:46 +0200
- References: <20001018205231.10237.qmail@web115.yahoomail.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
Earnie Boyd wrote:
> --- Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com> wrote:
> > I don't understand the problem here. ash only checks for the first
> > character of argv[0] being a '-' character to read the profiles.
> > I copied sh.exe to -sh.exe as well to run ash as login shell on a
> > NT 3.51 system on which bash crashed for some reason.
> >
>
> Ok. I was basing my opinions on what Bob stated he experienced and previous
> versions of other shells that check for sh in argv[0]. Are you saying that
> copying sh.exe to -sh.exe and then executing -sh works to trigger login
> conditions in ash?
Yes. Login conditions for ash means reading /etc/profile and
./.profile. Note that directory ".". ash doesn't change to $HOME
by itself so it has to be done by the parent process or in
/etc/profile.
Corinna
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