Workspace launched from remote terminal

[Rob Warnock]

In article <1990Aug16.120834.19609 at eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> smfedor at solar.lerc.nasa.gov (Gregory Fedor) writes:
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| In article <67004 at sgi.sgi.com> rpw3 at sgi.com (Rob Warnock) writes:
| >(*sigh*) Because of the way the window manager gets your environment vars...
| >... your example should read:
| > 	if ( ! $?ENVONLY && "`tty`" == "/dev/console" ) then
| > 	     workspace
| > 	endif
| 
| Potentially stupid question:  Does this apply for the /etc/cshrc file as well?
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Yes. (*sigh*)

The "exporttonews" program (in the case of "csh", "sh" is similar) actually
does, in a manual equivalent of "popen()":

fork();
...other stuff...
execl("/bin/csh", "-sh", "-c", "source .login;echo ::: ENV;exec /bin/env", 0);

Note that arg#0 ("-sh") begins with a "-" indicating a "login shell"
(see the csh(1) man page).

So, yes, both /etc/cshrc and ~/.cshrc get run.


-Rob

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