From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: TJ Luoma <tj@luo.ma>
Cc: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>,
"zsh-users@zsh.org" <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: root's path
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:54:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3TswTKD1uvishkHpZzKPz8K8vLiHMeNAv6D_5SPr_bHmQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <-5173424983285565090@unknownmsgid>
On 17 March 2012 15:52, TJ Luoma <tj@luo.ma> wrote:
> 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
I know, that's a bug in osx.
> The global environmental variable has to be set _somewhere_ otherwise
> there's nothing for shells to inherit.
Like I said, the correct place to set it is in the profile file for
the login shell.
--
Mikael Magnusson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-17 15:02 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
2012-03-17 14:54 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2012-03-17 15:02 ` Mikael Magnusson
2012-03-17 15:33 ` Bart Schaefer
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