login shells (was Re: UNIX-WIZARDS Digest V11#025)

[Paul Chamberlain]

In article <24957 at adm.BRL.MIL> protin at pica.army.mil (Arthur W. Protin Jr.) writes:
>ANSWER: That is exactly what the man page for ksh says!
>"If the shell is invoked by \fIexec\fR(2), and the first
>character of the argument zero (\fB$0\fR) is -, then the
>shell is assumed to be a \fIlogin\fR shell ...

Is there some legitimate reason not to have a user-program
that fork's shells this way (or is there an option to do
it somewhere).  It really bothers me that when I xinit
(or half a dozen or ways) I don't get my full set of
aliases and stuff.  I finally wrote a command called "loginsh"
that execs argv[1] with argv[2] etc. or by default execs $SHELL.
Except that it puts the "-" in front.  Then, I make a few small
modification to my xinit ...

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