At Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:59:49 +0200, <[email protected]> wrote:
Subject: Re: interactive shell detection in shrc
>
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 12:14:44PM -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > > SHELL is set by ksh and not by sh (sh handles NETBSD_SHELL), if I'm
> > > not mistaken?
> >
> > login(1) sets $SHELL, and in the BSD world it has done so since 4.2 or
> > before.  In the AT&T Unix world it has done so since at least
> > System III, aka UNIX 3.0.
> >
>
> What I mean is that if I'm under ksh, and then I switch to sh even
> explicitely setting interactive :

Then you just broke the rules!  :-)

Switching to shells interactively (and without manually changing
$SHELL), is entirely out of scope for this issue.

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