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Date:      Thu, 1 May 1997 22:20:15 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        chet@po.CWRU.Edu
Subject:   Re: /bin/sh -c and ENV
Message-ID:  <19970501222015.EJ31428@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <9705011332.AA06946.SM@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu>; from Chet Ramey on May 1, 1997 09:32:30 -0400
References:  <87rafr6a0o.fsf@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> <9705011332.AA06946.SM@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu>

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As Chet Ramey wrote:

> It's a bug.  A post-publication POSIX.2 interpretation made it clear
> that ENV should be executed only for interactive shells.

Interesting.  (And just braindead the other way round.  I wonder why
Mr. Korn didn't stick to the commonly used .foorc file, and had to
invent this crap instead.)  Do you have any reference for it?

I notice that ksh93 is the only Bourne-alike shell on my system that
doesn't... ah no, zsh doesn't source it either.  My bash is probably
way too old.  I'm not using it except for comparisions.

(In case you wonder why i think it's braindead the other way round:
setting up something like your favourite $PATH for a remote shell
execution is very easy if you're a C-shell user.  It's totally
impractical or even impossible for Bourne-alike shell users.  bash
excepted, it has a .bashrc as well.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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