https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1494
--- Comment #7 from Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Damien Miller from comment #2) > My copy of Single Unix Specification states: > > > SHELL > > This variable shall represent a pathname of the user's > > preferred command language interpreter. [...] > > Its definition of "pathname": > > > A character string that is used to identify a file. > > [...] > > Note: > > Pathname Resolution is defined in detail in _Pathname Resolution_. > > I'd say that a non-absolute pathname for $SHELL clearly does not > "identify a file" unless one happens to be in the same directory as > the shell itself and the "Pathname Resolution" section doesn't > specify that pathnames be resolved using $PATH. There would be the same issue with $EDITOR, while POSIX also says "pathname" for EDITOR and gives an example with EDITOR=vi (i.e. not an absolute pathname). According to a mail in the Austin Group mailing-list, the valid values for $SHELL should be documented by the platform. For Debian, I've reported: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=866060 (bug against the manpages package, which provides the environ(7) man page). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching someone on the CC list of the bug. You are watching the assignee of the bug. _______________________________________________ openssh-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-bugs
