[27041] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.4.34: athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jan 22 14:31:35 2007
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From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:27:53 -0500
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On Jan 16, 2007, at 9:57 PM, Jerrad Pierce wrote:
> bindir is set twice in /usr/athena/lib/init/cshrc
It's set once in the environment setup (done only for the first
shell) and once later. The history of this is complicated and
confusing, but I think at this point it could be replaced with a
single setting prior to the environment setup conditional.
However, I'm unlikely to tamper with this code without a compelling
reason, for failure of creating some nasty edge case failure with
someone's dotfiles. If you're parsing the bindir setting out of /usr/
athena/lib/init/cshrc for some reason, it should be safe to just
assume the current value (arch/${ATHENA_SYS}/bin).
