On 1 Apr, Michael Wardle wrote: > By what mechanism are you ensuring zsh is invoked as a login shell > rather than a non-login shell?
I think we were starting it via the cygwin shortcut (cygwin.bat), which as you have said, just runs bash --login. IIRC, the way we were starting zsh was via an exec inside the user's .profile. The trouble was, the .profile was not being run if Cygwin's mkdir created the /home mount point directory instead of Windows. > Does $- include "i"? > Does setopt show that interactive is on? > > With Cygwin 1.5.13, zsh 4.2.4-1 and the simple shell invocation utility > posted to this list on March 24 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (which > sets argv[0] to "-zsh"), zsh recognizes that it is a login shell and > correctly sources .zprofile. Ah! Looks perfect! Thanks, Michael, we'll give that a try. > You've probably already checked these things, but I'd be surprised if > this behavior was due to file permissions. We weren't surprised - we were flabbergasted! Anyway, we'll give your excellent shell.c a try and see how that goes. Peter Castro replied to: > > But /etc/passwd would source $HOME/.zprofile if /home had been created > > by Windows Explorer. > > I am unable to reproduce this. Are you using the zsh.bat file provided > or a custom startup bat file or just running the shell by itself? Please > make sure you are using the '-l' option to force a login shell. zsh has > greatly changed in a years time. Please consider upgrading to a later > release. No, we weren't using zsh.bat. Where does that get installed? I can't find it, though I see I have zsh 4.2.4 installed from my very recent complete re-install. I like the sound of Michael's shell.c because you don't need a separate ..bat file to start up each different shell. Thanks for the suggestions, luke luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
