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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: kmapnotify, LD_PRELOAD, (t)csh and aaarrgh! I'll die today! :-)
From:       Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel <mhk () caldera ! de>
Date:       2000-05-29 10:57:51
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On Mon, 29 May 2000, Rik Hemsley wrote:

> #if Cristian Tibirna
> > > I guess it means that you can't type tcsh shell expressions via Alt-F2 any 
> > > longer. (Only /bin/sh expressions)
> > 
> > It could be a workaround, but it ain't solution. Not being able to use
> > 'foreach...' or things in the Alt-F2 is not so bad. Not being able to
> > access my personal $PATH in the minicli *is* bad.
> 
> Well I committed the change to using /bin/sh then went to bed, then got
> up and reverted it :) There must be a way to keep the user's SHELL
> setting.
> 
> One thing I thought of was to detect if the user's SHELL ends in '/tcsh'
> or '/csh', and use csh syntax for setting LD_PRELOAD if so. That's a
> hack though.

Hm, what about

set LD_PRELOAD=hallo || LD_PRELOAD=hallo ; echo $LD_PRELOAD

Works with both shells.

Bye,
Matthias.

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