Bug#740919: xterm: clears $SHELL from environment at startup

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>]

Thomas Dickey dixit:

>you may notice that the change was intentional (to fix a serious bug
>in contrast to a user-configurable preference).

Hm, which bug?

>So - to the point: is /bin/mksh in /etc/shells?  If not, adding it
>there is the way to get your intended behavior.  If it is, then
>there's some additional aspect that I've overlooked.

Yes, /bin/mksh is in /etc/shells.

I can test patches, if you throw them to <t.glaser@tarent.de> (work
eMail).

In case that’s relevant, I have UXTerm*VT100*loginShell: true in
my .Xresources. (And my login shell is mksh. Of course. ☺)

bye,
//mirabilos
-- 
FWIW, I'm quite impressed with mksh interactively. I thought it was much
*much* more bare bones. But it turns out it beats the living hell out of
ksh93 in that respect. I'd even consider it for my daily use if I hadn't
wasted half my life on my zsh setup. :-) -- Frank Terbeck in #!/bin/mksh