Bug 4302 - /etc/profile.d/mc.sh: missing export -f makes function mc() vanish in non-console sessions
Summary: /etc/profile.d/mc.sh: missing export -f makes function mc() vanish in non-con...
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: mc
Version: 6.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-08-01 17:55 UTC by Christian Hechelmann
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-08-23 19:02:34 UTC
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Description Christian Hechelmann 1999-08-01 17:55:22 UTC 
When logging in via xdm/kdm/gdm any settings from
/etc/profile, and /etc/profile.d/* silently vanish. However
e.g. /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/* get run and whithin these
scripts the settings are still there.
Comment 1 Christian Hechelmann 1999-08-01 22:23:59 UTC 
It turns out that the observations I made are actually slightly
different: I noticed the whole thing because I modified
/etc/profile.d/mc.sh so that mc was passed an additional parameter and
this parameter (and the whole mc function) didn't show up in an
kvt/xterm/gnome-terminal. Close reading of the bash man-page revealed
that one needs to explicitly do "export -f <function name>" to get the
function in child processes..

Summary and component changed to reflect this.
Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 1999-08-23 19:02:59 UTC 
This appears to not be a problem: exporting names so that will
be passed to children is the behavior of bash (and other shells).
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