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Re: bash 3.1-1 "exec -l" doesn't start login shell
- From: Dave <d_inabox at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:59:33 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: bash 3.1-1 "exec -l" doesn't start login shell
Eric wrote:
>According to David Rothenberger on 1/12/2006 9:21 AM:
>
>> "bash --login" works fine, but the problem with "-bash" prevents chere
>> from starting login shells. It may be possible to modify chere to use
>> "bash --login", but this is still a bash bug, right?
>
> Yes, it is a regression in bash 3.1, and Tim Waugh proposed a patch here:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs/8634
>
> I will include that, as well as official patches 2-5, when I next roll
> bash-3.1-2.
Argh. Crossed emails - that's what I get for reading the list on the web.
Thanks Eric.
Dave.
PS. Apologies for repeatedly killing the thread history. That's what I get with yahoo.
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