[Xquartz-dev] 2.3.2_rc4

[Peter O'Gorman]

Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 20Dec2008 10:08, I wrote:
> | On 19Dec2008 16:43, Peter O'Gorman <peter at pogma.com> wrote:
> | | Cameron Simpson wrote:
> | | > On 20Dec2008 08:57, I wrote:
> | | > | What's wrong with this?
> | | > |   #!/bin/bash
> | | 
> | | If you're going to use bash, why not just exec -l the users shell to
> | | make it start with argv[0] = '-'?
> | | 
> | | Not that I'm quite following what you're trying to do though.
> | 
> | The objective is to invoke the user's (entirely arbitrary) login shell
> | to get their login env, and then to the X11 session so it runs with that
> | environment.
> 
> 
> My reply missed the point of your query, sorry. Not all shells take a -l
> option AFAIK. Hence the hopping through login(1).

My question was, why not:

#! /bin/bash
exec -l "$SHELL" "$@"

See 'help exec' in bash.

Peter
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