On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 13:03 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote:
On 11/02/09 12:20, quoth Jonathan Ryshpan:
My *question* is what process is reading .bash_profile and acquiring LC_COLLATE=POSIX. Let me repeat it:
The invocation chain for evolution, namely: <deleted...> doesn't show a shell of any kind anywhere between gdm, which manages the login screen, and evolution, which knows that LC_COLLATE=POSIX. Very likely the good guy is gnome-session. Maybe I should examine the gnome-session code (What's open source for, anyway?), but I have been too lazy.
Thanks to all - jon
Great question. The answer is that if gnome-session is not a bash process then it is probably the result of a bash process that became gnome-session after running the xinit component and then doing an exec. The exec results in gnome-session and preservation of the established environment.
See my reply to Suvayu dated 12:57 EST.
Your theory that gnome-session is exec-ed by bash is a reasonable one. It appears that gnome, at least, is sourcing in the environment variables (LC_COLLATE at least) as you say it should, which would make it unnecessary to source them in *again* in each individual shell. Except, of course, that the method that gnome uses to acquire them is that they be in .bash_login.
Interesting.
Thanks - jon