Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <20000929193011.7944.qmail@web110.yahoomail.com> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 12:30:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Subject: RE: /etc/profile in BASH To: "Masterson, Dave" Cc: "'cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com'" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- "Masterson, Dave" wrote: > I gotta learn to read more carefully... :-\ > > One more time -- having these two lines in /etc/profile means that > ~/.profile will be (potentially) sourced twice IMO, the test for ~/.profile should be removed. > (~/.bashrc might be as well depending on how the user handles it in > ~/.profile). IMO, setup should be modified to put the test for ~/.bashrc in ~/.bash_profile. > This could have > unintended consequences where people *add-to* instead of *set* their > environment variables -- particularly PATH. This could double the length of > the PATH variable and slow down access to commands (particularly if one or > more items on the PATH is a network share). > I agree. Caution has to be taken. 'Course, caution always has to be taken. > Also, in order to be compatible with other UNIX system shells (Kshell), a > user may have setup ~/.profile particularly for KShell and ~/.bash_profile > particularly for BASH. Since BASH will not read ~/.profile if it finds > ~/.bash_profile (or ~/.bash_login), I just tested this. Bash reads both ~/.profile and ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login. If both ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bash_login are present then only ~/.bash_profile is executed. Cheers, ===== Earnie Boyd mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com --- --- --- Cygwin: POSIX on Windows --- --- Minimalist GNU for Windows --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com