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From: ned@SCIRTP.UUCP (Ned Robie)
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Subject: .profile not being read from $HOME
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Date: Fri, 26-Jul-85 19:59:48 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 26 19:59:48 1985
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We run IN/ix, Interactive Systems' port of System III.  When a program
exec()s /bin/sh with argument 0 set to -sh, .profile is being read from
./.profile instead of $HOME/.profile as documented in every Unix user's
manual that I've looked at.  Is this a documentation problem or a bug?
Do other Unix systems have the same problem?  What is the correct behavior?

Thanks...

-- Ned Robie