On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 08:32:33AM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Why "exec"? Only "startkde" will do just fine. What is the advantage of the > often seen "exec"? There is not even a help text in the man page and it seems > a pretty useless command in a shell (and the above has a shell). directly from the builtins man page: (...) exec [-cl] [-a name] [command [arguments]] If command is specified, it replaces the shell. No new process is created. (...) That means, the shell calling .xsession will be replaced by startkde, which means, that you will have a shell less idling around in your process table. blue skies Jan -- -- Jan Christian Albiez -- IDS Interactive Diagnosis- and Servicesystems -- -- FZI -- Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14 -- 76131 Karlsruhe -- +49 721 9654 206 -- -- segmentation violation in module reality.o ... ... please shutdown your universe and reboot --
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