Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:10:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: "Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)" cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: /etc/profile - futile try to predict order of execution Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > While looking for the reason why "less" has stopped understanding the > BACKSPACE key (and a bunch of others) I stumbled over the following. > > I'm sending this just to INFORM about it. > I'm NOT on the xfree list. > I'm NOT interested of participating in more discussions on this subject. > > > $ head -63 /etc/profile | tail -1 > > `/bin/find /etc/profile.d -iname '*.sh' -type f` > > > > $ /bin/find /etc/profile.d -iname '*.sh' -type f > > /etc/profile.d/lilypond-profile.sh > > /etc/profile.d/mc.sh > > /etc/profile.d/openssl.sh > > /etc/profile.d/00xfree.sh > > NOTE that 00xfree is listed last... > THEN read what the comment in the first lines of the script says. > > > $ cat /etc/profile.d/00xfree.sh > > # the script name starts with 00 to ensure that it is executed before any > > # other scripts because one of them may need to know where X is to run > > # properly. > > > > X11PATH="/usr/X11R6/bin" > > > > if ! /bin/echo ${PATH} | /bin/grep -q ${X11PATH} ; then > > export PATH="${PATH}:${X11PATH}" > > fi > > > > $ IMO, this belongs on the cygwin list, as this concerns the predictability of the script execution order from /etc/profile. Hannu, this is really weird. I'm getting 00xfree.sh as the *first* file match: $ /bin/find /etc/profile.d/ -iname '*.sh' -type f /etc/profile.d/00xfree.sh /etc/profile.d/mc.sh /etc/profile.d/openssl.sh $ WAGs: Could this be the result of a different collation sequence in your language? Can you try running "LC_ALL=C /bin/find /etc/profile.d -iname '*.sh' -type f" on your machine? Speaking of your machine, could this be because you're using Win98? (Checking) Bingo! Somehow, on Win98 find traverses files in unsorted order, i.e., the order they were created. I guess either /etc/profile should guarantee alphanumeric order, or maintainers need to reassess their assumptions. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/