On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 11:24:07 +1100 Lex Trotman <ele...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Unfortunately I don't know that a shell login argument is portable. I > >> > think -l is specific to bash, but even --login doesn't work for dash > >> > (the default /bin/sh on Ubuntu IIRC). > >> > >> Patch actually developed and tested on Ubuntu. > > > > Maybe yours is Bash then. > > No bin/sh -> dash > > > > > A while ago I saw: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh > > > > And my dash-0.5.4-2.fc8 doesn't seem to have a login argument. > > Correct IAW the POSIX spec. > > Yet the patch worked on my system?? Well either your dash supports -l or the shell that gets run isn't dash. Anyway, -l is non-standard and there could be systems it wouldn't work on. Nick _______________________________________________ Geany-devel mailing list Geany-devel@uvena.de http://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany-devel