From: "Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: /etc/profile: avoid multiple /usr/bin in PATH
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2015 21:26:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.x9cghzy7ofd6j1@frascati.upc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fuzcvdpv.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
Am 08.12.2015, 22:21 Uhr, schrieb Achim Gratz:
> Helmut Karlowski writes:
>>> Can you tell me in which circumstances this happens and why this is a
>>> problem? SHELL is supposed to be the user preference, so I don't think
>>> /etc/profile should try to second-guess it.
>>
>> /etc/profile is run before ~/.profile, and if that does not set SHELL
>> there will be none.
>
> Yes, but why is this a problem? Note that bash will set it anyway if
> not present.
There must have been one once, I don't remember. And I don't use bash:
881/etc$bash --version
aKSH v0.0.1, Dec 7 2015 (cygwin-1.7.35(0.287/5/3))
(selfmade).
-Helmut
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-08 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-06 22:47 Helmut Karlowski
2015-12-08 21:01 ` Achim Gratz
2015-12-08 21:17 ` Helmut Karlowski
2015-12-08 21:21 ` Achim Gratz
2015-12-08 21:26 ` Helmut Karlowski [this message]
2015-12-08 21:31 ` Helmut Karlowski
2015-12-08 21:59 ` Helmut Karlowski
2016-09-04 11:32 ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-05 4:08 ` Doug Henderson
2016-09-05 17:57 ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-05 18:13 ` Vince Rice
2016-09-05 19:07 ` Achim Gratz
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