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

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

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

From: Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@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: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 13:13:20 +0300

 On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 11:20:02 +0000, nia wrote:
 
 >  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
 
 Are you still trying to work around the fact that shell doesn't enable
 command line editing by default?  Can we just fix that so that it
 doesn't distract from the discussion of xdm bugs?
 
 -uwe