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From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Message-Id: <199902281126.MAA26635@father.ludd.luth.se>
Subject: Re: make crash
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 12:26:53 +0100 (MET)
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com (DJGPP)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.990221131728.6539J-100000@is> from Eli Zaretskii at "Feb 21, 99 01:17:52 pm"
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According to Eli Zaretskii:
> On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> > Because it's the right thing to do(tm)! Because DOZE has no sense of
> > logging in, every invocation of the shell must be a log in shell
> 
> I still don't get why is it ``the right thing to do''.  There should
> be only one login shell: the first instance of Bash.  Every other
> instance that is subsidiary to the first one, should NOT be the login
> shell.

I set SHELL in AUTOEXEC.BAT, so when running any program (like
COMMAND.COM) and bash is launched it must be a login shell.

But you are right if bash starts another bash, then it shouldn't be a
login shell. Hence I need to reset SHELL in my .login or whatever it's
called. I'll look into it.


New Model Army, New Model Army,

							MartinS

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