Hi Chet, thank you for your answer. I will send a summary about this problem to the gentoo maintainers, then.
Best Regards, Ingo > On 7/13/16 8:37 AM, ikrabbe....@gmail.com wrote: > >> Bash Version: 4.3 >> Patch Level: 42 >> Release Status: release >> >> Description: >> In a bash session where the MAIL variable is not explicitly set, the >> MAIL variable might be auto-set through a compile time definition of >> DEFAULT_MAIL_DIRECTORY. There is no method (no method I know of) to find >> about about these compile time definitions and / or configuration flags. >> To find out about this bevaiour I needed to read the source code and >> finally found this line in CHANGES: >> >> hhh. Improved the mail checking code so it won't check (and possibly >> cause an >> NFS file system mount) until MAILPATH or MAIL is given a value -- >> there >> is no default if DEFAULT_MAIL_DIRECTORY is not defined at compile >> time. >> >> >> Repeat-By: >> Install bash and remove all occurences of MAIL= or similar from the >> several profile and rc files. >> >> Fix: >> Please describe the dependency of the MAIL variables on the manual >> page. If you manage to do so, add the value of DEFAULT_MAIL_DIRECTORY and >> it's effects in the generated manual pages. > > The precedence of the MAIL and MAILPATH variables is already described in > the man page. I will look at changes to the man page to indicate that > there is no default value for MAILPATH; there is some language in there > that implies bash sets a default value (which it did in the past). > > The manual page describes bash as I distribute it. If a vendor or > distribution wishes to change the default, to supply a default for > MAILPATH, for example, I expect them to modify the documentation for > their distribution to reflect that. Some do, many don't. > > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
