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From: <hzoli@vnet.IBM.COM> (Zoltan T. Hidvegi)
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Subject: Re: zsh not sourcing /etc/profile?
In-Reply-To: <199704142054.QAA13764@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu> from Alain Caron at "Apr 14, 97 03:51:00 pm"
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Alain Caron wrote:
[...]
> Even there, the behaviour is not the same as ksh.
[...]
> under ksh:
> 4> function foo { echo $0 }
> 5> foo
> foo
>
> under zsh :
[...]
> 6> function foo { echo $0 }
[...]
> 12> emulate ksh
[...]
> 14> foo
> zsh

Well, POSIX requires that $0 should always be the name used to invoke the
shell.  The latest ksh claims to be POSIX conformant...  Of course it is
possible to add a new option called something like SCRIPT_ARGZERO but that
would probably just further increase the confusion.

Zoltan