From: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>
To: schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com (Bart Schaefer)
Cc: olsenc@ichips.intel.com, zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: "exec zsh" inside .zprofile doesn't set SHELL
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:30:54 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E11Tjfq-0005vk-00@crucigera.fysh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <990922085717.ZM16212@candle.brasslantern.com> from Bart Schaefer at "Sep 22, 1999 8:57:17 am"
Bart Schaefer wrote:
>The problem with testing version numbers is that, whichever way you do the
>equality (equal the old version or not-equal the new one), the wrong thing
>may happen if one or the other gets upgraded. And if for some reason the
>output of =zsh is the path to the old version, you still have a loop. So
...
A better solution -- which I use on all systems, even if they have an
up-to-date zsh installed -- is to make your login shell be /bin/sh,
and have your .profile do the exec zsh. zsh doesn't read the .profile,
so there's no possibility of a loop. /bin/sh is also likely to start
up faster than the system's zsh.
-zefram
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1999-09-22 8:57 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-09-22 10:30 ` Zefram [this message]
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