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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: What is a good way to do general execs?
Message-ID: <1651@charon.cwi.nl>
Date: 15 Jun 90 00:08:02 GMT
References: <3449@auspex.auspex.com> <805@ehviea.ine.philips.nl> <3459@auspex.auspex.com>
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In article <3459@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
 >  >     Invocation. 
 >  >     If the first character of argument zero is -, commands are 
 >  >     read from $HOME/.profile, if such a file exists.   
 > 
 > I consider "login shell" basically short for "shell with the first
 > character of argument zero a '-'" (which means that any shell fired up
 > by "login" is a login shell, but so are shells fired up by e.g.  "su"
 > when run with the appropriate flag).  I considered the more detailed
 > explanation unnecessary and extraneous in this case.... 

It is indeed extraneous in the context; but I think your position is flawed.
Try:
	PATH=$PATH:.
	ln -s /bin/sh -sh
	-sh
Now, when you consider this to be a login shell, it becomes another matter,
but I think that it is non-intuitive naming.
--
dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
dik@cwi.nl