On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 19:18:32 +0100 k...@shike2.com wrote:
>
> >> HOME must hold the value of the user's home directory, if this
> >> value is not the value of /etc/passwd then you have an error
> >> in your configuration. The same can be said about SHELL. You
> >> can change your shell selection u
>> I did a quick survey of a number of other terminal emulators: tmux,
>> xterm, GNU screen, rxvt and dvtm all check the SHELL environment
>> variable. Checking SHELL is expected behaviour, and it's a useful one at
>> that.
>>
>> Eric
>
> Checking SHELL is common behaviour and any user setting S
Hi,
Eric Pruitt wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 11:33:17AM +0100, k...@shike2.com wrote:
> > I would like to listen the opinion of other suckless developers about
> > this point. What do you think guys?
>
> It's been nearly two weeks since I originally submitted this, and I
> don't think anyone
On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 11:33:17AM +0100, k...@shike2.com wrote:
> I would like to listen the opinion of other suckless developers about
> this point. What do you think guys?
It's been nearly two weeks since I originally submitted this, and I
don't think anyone else cares. I'm going to repeat myse
>> HOME must hold the value of the user's home directory, if this
>> value is not the value of /etc/passwd then you have an error
>> in your configuration. The same can be said about SHELL. You
>> can change your shell selection using chsh.
>
> I don't agree with your interpretation of the POSIX
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 09:52:14PM +0100, k...@shike2.com wrote:
> I read this sentence as 'SHELL variable must hold always the value of
> the user preferred command in the /etc/passwd file, and any program
> that create a session must be aware of setting it from /etc/passwd'.
> The sentence doesn'
Hi,
> - POSIX states the SHELL environment variable "... shall represent a
> pathname of the user's preferred command language interpreter." As
Well, this is a really complex topic. First because in this sentence
is not specified what is 'user's preferred command language
interpreter'. I read
- POSIX states the SHELL environment variable "... shall represent a
pathname of the user's preferred command language interpreter." As
such, st should check for its presence when deciding what shell to
use; just as HOME can be defined to override one's passwd-defined home
directory, a use
