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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>, "Andreas Gerstlauer" <gerstl AT ics DOT uci DOT edu>
References:  <200203211032 DOT aa19069 AT gremlin-relay DOT ics DOT uci DOT edu>
Subject: Re: SHELL variable not exported
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 18:51:42 -0000
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Latest bash stopped exporting many variables. It's in the mail archives.

From the bash changes file:

w. Bash no longer auto-exports HOME, PATH, SHELL, or TERM, even though it
gives them default values if they don't appear in the initial environment.

Max.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andreas Gerstlauer" <gerstl AT ics DOT uci DOT edu>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 6:32 PM
Subject: SHELL variable not exported


> I just upgraded (after using a rather old version) to the
> latest Cygwin (1.3.10) and have a strange behavior:
> it seems the SHELL environment variable doesn't get exported.
> 
> The way I realized that is that when I am starting an rxvt
> out of the normal Cygwin shell (clicking on the icon), rxvt
> will run /bin/sh instead of /bin/bash (the latter one being
> in /etc/passwd). An "echo $SHELL" in the Cygwin shell gives
> me the correct /bin/bash but the same thing in rxvt returns
> nothing (not set - hence, rxvt falls back to /bin/sh).
> 
> Now, if I do "export SHELL" in the Cygwin shell and then
> run rxvt everything's fine!
> 
> What's wrong? Did something change? Do I need to tweak
> something? Or is this a bug? It used to work fine before...
> 
> For the record, I am running under both Win 98 and Win 2k.
> 
> Andreas
> 
> P.S.: Please reply by personal mail, I am not subscribed to
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