larry a price wrote:

> On Mon, 21 May 2001, Bob Miller wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> > Now, login is a setuid program, and it runs in a process just like
> > everything else (except the kernel).  So login builds a complete new
> > environment for your login shell.  So if you set something in a
> > startup script, that something won't be inherited by users, but
> > it will be .
> >
> Alice noticed that the room was getting smaller, or she was getting
> larger...

Sorry, there was a two hour lunch in the middle of composing that
message, and I guess it showed.  I don't have any idea how I'd planned
to end that paragraph.

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Bob Miller                              K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
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