Bug#10445: marked as done (xterm: using -e with -ls fails to open a login shell)
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From: Jon Rabone <jonr@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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Subject: Xterm -e and -ls options don't work together
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The -ls option does not do the right thing if -e is also specified to
execute a command, because xterm does an execvp _before_ the shell (bash
in this case) can read the system and user profiles. This breaks (for
example)
xterm -ls -e trn
because the environment is not set up properly.
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On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 01:59:53PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > Debian Bug report logs - [1]#10445
> > xterm: using -e with -ls fails to open a login shell
>=20
> This should be closed since the documentation fixes requested were made.
Since xterm 4.2.1-8 at the latest (and probably for several package
releases before that) the xterm manpage has said the following:
-ls This option indicates that the shell that is started in =
the
xterm window will be a login shell (i.e., the first charac=
ter
of argv[0] will be a dash, indicating to the shell that=
it
should read the user's .login or .profile).
Note that this is incompatible with -e, since the login prog=
ram
does not provide a way to specify the command to run in the =
new
shell. If you specify both, xterm uses -ls.
Closing this report.
--=20
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