From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: environment settings
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:36:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080621113659.GA20796@prunille.vinc17.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080621062649.GA28022@blorf.net>
On 2008-06-20 23:26:49 -0700, Wayne Davison wrote:
> The problem I ran into with setting variables in .zshenv is that they
> can override settings you want to affect a program and/or script when
> you don't expect it. For instance, if you need to debug a C program
> that is run inside a script with a custom PATH. You setup the custom
> PATH and run the C program under gdb, and discover that your PATH isn't
> set right for the C program. This is because gdb starts the program
> under an instance of $SHELL, which will source .zshenv, and if you're
> setting PATH inside, that blasts the PATH setting you're expecting.
I'd say that this is a bug of gdb if it doesn't restore the intended
$PATH (a bit like what libtool does, AFAIK). BTW, isn't $SHELL for
the user?
Note this I really want zsh subshells I start to be run with a
cleaned-up environment (this is a *user* choice).
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2008-06-17 8:33 ` Jörg Sommer
2008-06-17 9:39 ` Stephane Chazelas
2008-06-17 10:41 ` Vincent Lefevre
2008-06-17 12:58 ` Stephane Chazelas
2008-06-17 13:11 ` Vincent Lefevre
2008-06-17 13:26 ` Stephane Chazelas
2008-06-17 13:28 ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-06-17 14:25 ` Stephane Chazelas
2008-06-17 15:54 ` Vincent Lefevre
2008-06-17 16:00 ` Stephane Chazelas
2008-06-17 19:50 ` Vincent Lefevre
2008-06-17 20:32 ` Stephane Chazelas
2008-06-18 10:38 ` Vincent Lefevre
2008-06-18 11:52 ` Stephane Chazelas
2008-06-18 17:11 ` Bart Schaefer
2008-06-17 14:55 ` Vincent Lefevre
2008-06-17 14:45 ` Vincent Lefevre
2008-06-18 8:49 ` Jörg Sommer
2008-06-18 9:33 ` Stephane Chazelas
2008-06-21 6:26 ` Wayne Davison
2008-06-21 11:36 ` Vincent Lefevre [this message]
2008-06-21 12:30 ` Stephane Chazelas
2008-06-22 8:41 ` Vincent Lefevre
2008-06-23 15:24 ` Stephane Chazelas
2008-06-23 16:16 ` Vincent Lefevre
2008-06-23 16:20 ` Bart Schaefer
2008-06-23 16:29 ` Stephane Chazelas
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