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From: jsd@esl.ESL.COM (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Instant Ignition problems
Message-ID: <324@esl.ESL.COM>
Date: 6 Sep 90 20:18:57 GMT
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In article <970010@hpfcda.HP.COM> eric@hpfcda.HP.COM (Eric Flink) writes:
>
>However, thebe is a workaround which should fix the problem.  If you
>make the server into a shell script, it can set up the appropriate
>environment variables then exec the real X server.

So in general, there is now way for XSession to run with the environment
from a user (except thru the limited functionallity in .Xdefaults)?  And the
only way to change that is to set up an environment which the server starts
under?  Is this correct?

How does something like "umask" get set then?  Where does the initial value
come from?
-- 
Jeff Dalton, ESL Inc.                    Real programmers can write 
jsd@esl.com                                 Fortran in any language.