Package: bash Version: 2.05b-26 Severity: normal
bash 2.05b-26 does not document the 'SHELL' environment variable that is automatically set by bash. I went through the man page and the docs in bash-doc and could find no references to this environment variable. It appears to be automatically set to the path to the bash binary. Unfortunately this is exported to subproccess, which may be other shells such as dash, leading to confusion and misinformation. example from bash prompt: $ echo $SHELL /bin/bash $ /bin/dash $ echo $SHELL /bin/bash This environment variable should be documented as to its usage and purpose. *** /home/brian/.reportbug.sig NOTE: Due to debian.org's inadequate measures to prevent email address harvesting from bugs.debian.org, you must include "Bug#", without the quotes, in the subject of any email that you wish to send me directly. Automated messages sent by the emial list daemon already do this. Thank You. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (470, 'testing'), (460, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-686 Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages bash depends on: ii base-files 3.1.2 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii passwd 1:4.0.3-31sarge9 change and administer password and -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
