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From: Chet Ramey <chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu>
To: donn@milton.u.washington.edu
Cc: rc@archone.tamu.edu, chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu
Subject: Re: login shells
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1991 15:54:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9108062054.AA22708.SM@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from donn@milton.u.washington.edu of Tue, 6 Aug 1991 11:10:43 -0500

> > I think rshd is broken.
> 
> How should it work?  Would it be OK with you, if rshd exec'd commands
> with "-" prefixed to the shell name in argv[0], thus causing them to
> be "logins"?  That will force people who exec stty etc. in .rcrc to
> bracket that stuff with an interactivity test, but it's fairly
> straightforward.

I like the 10th Edition method of putting a special variable in the
environment of the invoked shell (REMOTE= or REMOTEHOST=otherhost or
something like that).

Chet

--
``Someday soon, I'm gonna tell the world about the crying game...''

Chet Ramey			  Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
Case Western Reserve University	  NeXT Mail: chet@macbeth.INS.CWRU.Edu


             reply	other threads:[~1991-08-06 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1991-08-06 20:54 Chet Ramey [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1991-08-07 15:35 Donn Cave
1991-08-07  9:38 malte
1991-08-06 21:17 Donn Cave
1991-08-06 16:10 Donn Cave
1991-08-02 15:26 Donn Cave
1991-08-06 12:16 ` Boyd Roberts

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