From: TJ Luoma <tj@luo.ma>
To: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
Cc: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>,
"zsh-users@zsh.org" <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: root's path
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:52:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <-5173424983285565090@unknownmsgid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHYJk3Qoev7k6b6761SiVUWBD-EjnxmXQCzwJrGxfwoM8sp8ug@mail.gmail.com>
On Mar 17, 2012, at 7:22 AM, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Absolutely not, if you set PATH from *env, it makes it impossible to
> inherit the PATH from the parent process' environment, even in
> scripts, which will break a lot of things. The path should only be set
> once on login of the current session, ie in zprofile if zsh is your
> login shell, otherwise in the startup file for your login shell.
Fwiw, Zsh on the Mac inits its path from /etc/zshenv
The global environmental variable has to be set _somewhere_ otherwise
there's nothing for shells to inherit.
TjL
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-17 14:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-17 1:45 sergio
2012-03-17 4:44 ` Benjamin R. Haskell
2012-03-17 8:58 ` sergio
[not found] ` <alpine.LNX.2.01.1203170040230.18133__19065.733991056$1331959656$gmane$org@hp.internal>
2012-03-17 11:13 ` Christian Neukirchen
2012-03-17 11:21 ` Mikael Magnusson
2012-03-17 14:52 ` TJ Luoma [this message]
2012-03-17 14:54 ` Mikael Magnusson
2012-03-17 15:02 ` Mikael Magnusson
2012-03-17 15:33 ` Bart Schaefer
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