[Xquartz-dev] 2.3.2_rc4

[Martin Costabel]

Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
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> According to the definitions that I did not quote, when bash is run with 
> argument zero equal to -bash it is a login shell, however it is not 
> interactive and so it doesn't read the login files unless you also 
> supply --login.

Yes, this must be the right interpretation.

> To make life even more interesting, csh doesn't recognize the -l flag if 
> it also given the -c flag.

This is not what I am observing. I see csh behaving exactly like tcsh in 
this respect.

> I think this combination of facts destroys any hope of a single method 
> for doing what we are trying to do and which works with both bash and csh.

My current X11 wrapper script works fine(*) for csh, tcsh, bash, ksh, zsh.

(*) Fine meaning that I don't mind that it reads some bash startup 
scripts before the startup scripts for tcsh.

-- 
Martin