Re:

[Brian J. Fox]

   From: "Yves Crespin" <ycrespin@compuserve.com>
   Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:41:58 +0200

   $bash --version
   GNU bash, version 2.03.0(1)-release (i386-slackware-linux-gnu)
   Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   $uname -a
   Linux linux 2.2.13 #127 Thu Oct 21 13:13:20 CDT 1999 i686 unknown

   I use a co-shell for loading user environment variables.
   I use execve(
           "/bin/bash",
           {
                   "-bash",
                   NULL
           },
           {
                   "LOGNAME=user",
                   "HOME=/home/user",
                   "SHELL=/bin/bash",
                   "PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin",
                   NULL
           }
   )

   I write "env\n" to the coprocess and I read co-process enviromnent
   variables: PWD, HOSTNAME, MACHTYPE, LOGNAME, SHLVL, SHELL,
   HOSTTYPE, OSTYPE, HOME, TERM, PATH, _ But environment variables
   which are exported from /etc/profile and ~/.profile are not in the
   co-process environment.

   I check this programm on SCO (ksh) and HP (hp-ksh), it's work.

   Is there something spécial to do with bash?

Try adding "-login" as the first argument to bash.

Brian

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