On 2011-02-17 16:39:52 +0100, Michel Briand wrote: > I don't think $SHELL is only there to run simple commands. IIRC the > $SHELL variable is set after the value in /etc/passwd (or whatever > account mgt system) and represent the preferred shell and what we can > refer as the "login shell". > > If I setup my profile in .bash_profile, for example, I'd like to > have it loaded during X session. If sh is used instead then all child > processes of the session will not have profile variables set up. This > could be very annoying.
OK. However that's still annoying that the shell can depend on the permissions (but this isn't new with this change). A bit dangerous IMHO, as errors can easily remain unnoticed. I've reported bug 613844 about the Xsession(5) man page, which should be updated to reflect this change. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
