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From: "Jan Schormann" <Jan DOT Schormann AT BrainLAB DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Handling of /etc/profile.d broken?
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 10:18:44 +0200
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Hi,

I've just noticed a weird problem:
When I set an environment variable in a script in
/etc/profile.d, I never see it in my shell.
For example, take

---- /etc/profile.d/blub.sh:
export blub=1
----

Adding "echo $blub" to the loop in /etc/profile,
I can see that it gets set, but is unset immediately
after the loop.

The attached patch changes the loop from the
"find ... | while ..." idiom to "for f in `find ...` ...",
and that works.

Is it true that the "|" starts a new sub-shell, which
makes all the "export" commands and the use of the
"source" (".") obsolete? What a pity.

I wonder whether it has been like that all the time,
and I'm the only one who's so stupid as to try and set
environment variables in /etc/profile.d?

Funny world ;-) Any hints?

Best wishes,
	Jan.

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--- /etc/profile~	2003-09-02 11:14:35.695367000 +0200
+++ /etc/profile	2004-05-03 10:08:17.905875000 +0200
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
=20
 # Run all of the profile.d scripts
 # Note that these are supplied by separate packages
-/bin/find /etc/profile.d -iname '*.sh' -type f | while read f; do
+for f in `/bin/find /etc/profile.d -iname '*.sh' -type f`; do
   if [ -f "$f" ]; then
     . "$f"
   fi


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