Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!uwvax!rutgers!ucsd!ucsdhub!jack!elgar!ag
From: ag@elgar.UUCP (Keith Gabryelski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Login shell?
Message-ID: <11@elgar.UUCP>
Date: 23 Oct 88 19:45:04 GMT
References: <314@uplog.se> <842@philmds.UUCP>
Reply-To: ag@elgar.UUCP (Keith Gabryelski)
Organization: Elgar Corporation, San Diego, CA
Lines: 16

In article <842@philmds.UUCP> leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
>1) When I execl("/bin/sh","-sh",(char *)0); from within a C program I
>also have a shell whose name starts with '-'

Yes, so... Don't do it.

>2) When I exec a shell in my .profile file (for instance if I want my
>own shell instead of /bin/sh or /bin/csh and don't want to bother my
>system manager), this shell doesn't start with '-'.

Bother your system manager or ``execl("/bin/sh","-sh",(char *)0); from
within a C program'' in .profile.

Pax, Keith
-- 
ag@elgar.CTS.COM         Keith Gabryelski          ...!{ucsd, jack}!elgar!ag