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Bug#276234: xterm lost $HOME/bin and $TMPDIR



On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 03:50:06PM +0200, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 08:09:06PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> > Maybe they have changed something in 4.1.0-16woody2 or 4.1.0-16woody3
> 
> This is a ludicrous assertion.  Diff the unpacked source packages.

I'm guessing that the original configuration had the setgid bit for xterm
removed (for whatever reason) by whoever's in charge of the machine.

xterm doesn't strip environment variables, and it's been a while since
I noticed comments about changes to the runtime doing that - so I'm
assuming the set of variables removed hasn't changed much over the past
couple of years.  google reminds me that this was done and discussed
3-4 years ago, so it's certainly not a new thing.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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