[Xquartz-dev] 2.3.2_rc4

Harald Hanche-Olsen hanche at math.ntnu.no
Fri Dec 26 10:09:03 PST 2008


+ Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at apple.com>:

> Is there a reason we don't do 'exec -l' for bash?

Yes.  See my message 20081223.203308.200269054.hanche at math.ntnu.no 
(date 2008-12-23) on this list:

+ Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche at math.ntnu.no>:

> [...] 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.

- Harald


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