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Date:      Sat, 20 Nov 1999 11:05:59 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ps ax: kernel command line caching bug with "-"? 
Message-ID:  <199911201605.LAA58751@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19991120151219.8CE6F1CA0@overcee.netplex.com.au>
References:  <19991120065432.A74795@freebsd.org> <19991120151219.8CE6F1CA0@overcee.netplex.com.au>

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<<On Sat, 20 Nov 1999 23:12:19 +0800, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> said:

> IMHO: Either change su to use '-' or forget about it..  I don't recall
> whether csh/tcsh attribute anything magic to having the leading "-" or
> not..

Same thing as every other shell: a leading `-' means that the shell is
a login shell.

-GAWollman

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