Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 04:44:04PM -0500, Matt Housh wrote:
> | > > tty2, then do "startx --:1 to start a _second_ xsession - both running at
> | > > the same time.
> | > > However in red hat this does not work.
> | Last time I checked, this worked fine, but I was doing "startx -- :1" -
> | perhaps the space between the "--" and ":1" is required to make it work?
>
> Of course it's required. "--" is a special marker in command options
> meaning "end of options". In the case of startx, startx is a wrapper
> for both a session script and the X server, and the -- distinguishes
> the options for the X server from what comes before (if anything).
>
> This is even (gasp!) described in the manual entry.
why is this needed in this case? there is no expansion/ iterpolation done for the
: char is there? does the : confuse bash because it is the path seperator?
The -- marker is talked about in context of several things (in the bash man page)
but none that I can see that has anything explicity to do with :
Any clification/enlightenment welcome
Bret
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