On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 13:03 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: > On 11/02/09 12:20, quoth Jonathan Ryshpan: > > My *question* is what process is reading .bash_profile and acquiring > > LC_COLLATE=POSIX. Let me repeat it: > > > > The invocation chain for evolution, namely: > > <deleted...> > > doesn't show a shell of any kind anywhere between gdm, which manages the > > login screen, and evolution, which knows that LC_COLLATE=POSIX. Very > > likely the good guy is gnome-session. Maybe I should examine the > > gnome-session code (What's open source for, anyway?), but I have been too > > lazy. > > > > Thanks to all - jon > > > > > > Great question. The answer is that if gnome-session is not a bash process then > it is probably the result of a bash process that became gnome-session after > running the xinit component and then doing an exec. The exec results in > gnome-session and preservation of the established environment. > > See my reply to Suvayu dated 12:57 EST. Your theory that gnome-session is exec-ed by bash is a reasonable one. It appears that gnome, at least, is sourcing in the environment variables (LC_COLLATE at least) as you say it should, which would make it unnecessary to source them in *again* in each individual shell. Except, of course, that the method that gnome uses to acquire them is that they be in .bash_login. Interesting. Thanks - jon -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
