Re: xsrc/54851 (.profile is not read by sh when using xdm or other login managers)

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR xsrc/54851; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: xsrc/54851 (.profile is not read by sh when using xdm or other
 login managers)
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2022 11:19:55 +0000

 On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 03:40:02PM +0000, Valery Ushakov wrote:
 >  On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 14:10:02 +0000, nia wrote:
 >  
 >  >  I do agree with this - NetBSD's the only OS that doesn't include the
 >  >  sbin directories in DEF_USER_PAH by default.  Are you happy with
 >  >  it being modified to include the sbin directories for harmonization?
 >  
 >  Yes.  IIRC, that was my very first comment on the PATH issue.  I'd
 >  just set DEF_USER_PATH to the value of _PATH_STDPATH with $(X11BINDIR)
 >  appended.
 >  
 >  
 >  >  IMO if we want to teach xdm about sysctl user.cs_path it should be
 >  >  done upstream.
 >  
 >  Yes.
 
 Are you OK with my proposal to:
 
 (a) revert reading of ~/.profile from the xsession shell script,
     as you requested
 (b) run all xterms with login shells by defualt
 
 ?