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#: 4967 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
08-Jul-90 00:51:40
Sb: #4914-Login Shell
Fm: Kim Kempf 76701,65
To: David George 72240,134
The login program forks the shell with argv[0] = '-'. When shell sees this, it
knows assumes that it was forked by the login program and makes itself a
special case: read the .login/.logout files, set certain options such as
"interactive mode". Hope this helps.
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