[26148] in Athena Bugs
Re: $initdir scripts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Oct 22 14:40:48 2004
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
To: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@mit.edu>
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:39:39 -0400
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On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 14:28, Greg Hudson wrote:
> > Fixed by changing ${ENV_SET:+set} to just ${ENV_SET+set} .
>
> Hm. I hope the tcsh dotfiles set up all the environment stuff expected
> by the bash ones, then. But I can see the problems with the current
> approach.
Hm. The use of ${ENV_SET:+set} is deliberate, as explained in the
following CVS log message:
revision 1.15
date: 2000/10/14 17:33:39; author: ghudson; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2
Kludge: The standard cshrc gets run when bash users do an X login,
because they get a csh xsession. So the first time we run, ENV_SET is
often already set, to a blank value. Because we want to run .bashrc,
do the environment setup is ENV_SET is empty. (We set it to 't', so
we still won't run it twice.)
I think I meant to say .bash_environment, not .bashrc, in the
second-to-last sentence.
I can see how the current behavior is harmful to tcsh users who run
bash, but your proposed solution would be a regression for bash users.
I'll have to think about this problem. I'll submit your other fixes in
the meantime.
