Re: [gentoo-user] man bash document doesn't match real life bash.

[David Harel]

As Etaoin Shrdlu said, bash does not even start /etc/profile. Below grep
on strace output on bash:
$ grep profile /tmp/bash.trace
$
$ # My comment, it got nothing
$ grep bashrc /tmp/bash.trace
open("/etc/bash/bashrc", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
read(3, "# /etc/bash/bashrc\n#\n# This file"..., 2540) = 2540
open("/home/harel/.bashrc", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3


Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:03:16 +0200, David Harel wrote:
>
>
>> I was surprised to find that in man bash the reference to initialization
>> files is wrong. The bash manual says it reads initialization files from
>> /etc/profile:
>> FILES
>>        /bin/bash
>>               The bash executable
>>        /etc/profile
>>               The systemwide initialization file, executed for login
>> shells
>>
>>
>> Where real life uses /etc/bash/bashrc
>> This part is taken from strace dump: strace bash -i
>> open("/etc/bash/bashrc", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
>>
>
> It reads both, this is from /etc/profile
>
> if [ -n "${BASH_VERSION}" ] ; then
>     # Newer bash ebuilds include /etc/bash/bashrc which will setup PS1
>     # including color.  We leave out color here because not all
>     # terminals support it.
>     if [ -f /etc/bash/bashrc ] ; then
>         # Bash login shells run only /etc/profile
>         # Bash non-login shells run only /etc/bash/bashrc
>         # Since we want to run /etc/bash/bashrc regardless, we source it
>         # from here.  It is unfortunate that there is no way to do
>         # this *after* the user's .bash_profile runs (without putting
>         # it in the user's dot-files), but it shouldn't make any
>         # difference.
>         . /etc/bash/bashrc
>
>
>

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Regards.

David Harel,

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