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From: <hzoli@vnet.IBM.COM> (Zoltan T. Hidvegi)
To: coleman@math.gatech.edu (Richard Coleman)
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: zsh not sourcing /etc/profile?
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 14:45:49 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9704141845.AA18192@lotto.fishkill.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rcn2r18prf.fsf@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> from Richard Coleman at "Apr 14, 97 01:42:44 pm"

Richard Coleman wrote:
> I found this article on comp.unix.shells.  I thought I would
> pass it along.
[...]
> > posix-sh, ksh, and bash all return the name of the shell for $0 when
> > sourcing a file.
> >
> > Only zsh returns the name of the file being sourced.  I suspect the
> > right behaviour is to return the shell name.  The reason for this is
> > that sourcing a file does not create a new process, it should behave
> > as if the file had been typed from the keyboard.  If you type the
> > command "echo $0" at the prompt, it should return the shell name.
> > Although I really like zsh, I think it does not have the right
> > behaviour because you can't rely on $0 to determine which shell is
> > interpreting the file.

Under zsh this is controlled by the FUNCTION_ARGZERO option, which is set
when zsh is started as sh/ksh.

Zoltan


  reply	other threads:[~1997-04-14 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]   ` <5irn2i$b2p@charm.il.ft.hse.nl>
     [not found]     ` <5itdj0$dc0@bmtlh10.bnr.ca>
1997-04-14 17:42       ` Richard Coleman
1997-04-14 18:45         ` Zoltan T. Hidvegi [this message]
1997-04-14 19:51 Alain Caron
1997-04-14 22:38 ` Zoltan T. Hidvegi

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