>Date: Tue, 9 Jan 96 18:08 PST
>From: mbell@europa.com (Max Bell)

(about csh:)
>It can escape quotes perfectly well, just not within quotes.  While this
>behavior is not ideal, it is easy to work around, which is more than I can
>say for Korn's obnoxious failure to execute its .profile when invoked either
>via rsh or setuid -- as required by old cron implementations.

I don't know about setuid, but *no* shells execute .profile (or
.login) when called via rsh, because such shells are not called as
login shells.  I can't test this on my NetBSD system now, but that's
what SunOS 4.1.3 (aka BSD4.2+) does.
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