On 11/06/21 at 09:08pm, brainpower wrote: > Am 06.11.21 um 19:15 schrieb Andrew Gregory: > > bash thinks it's being run remotely because we connect to the child over > > sockets. > > oh, right, that makes sense... I knew I was missing something rather obvious. > :/ > (I shouldn't have just skimmed the manpage after all... I missed it b/c I was > only looking for the word "interactive", which isn't in that paragraph) > > > But what I'm still not quite getting is, > what's the difference of pacman being run by sudo vs. directly? > Shouldn't bash also think the sockets were remote if pacman is not run using > sudo? > > But it probably can detect somehow that it runs inside a interactive zsh when > pacman is run directly, > while there is no shell running between sudo and pacman when running it using > sudo... > or something like that. > > Well mystery somewhat solved, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
I'd guess it's because it also checks for $SHLVL < 2.
