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bug#23914: 24.5; tramp-get-remote-path fails with some shells if tramp-o
From: |
Michael Albinus |
Subject: |
bug#23914: 24.5; tramp-get-remote-path fails with some shells if tramp-own-remote-path is used |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 17:07:24 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>> evaluating its ~/.profile and friends. If somebody knows a portable way,
>> how one could determine the $PATH settings of a login shell, I'll add it
>> to Tramp happily.
>
> Traditionally, the bourne shell acts as a login shell if argv[0] starts
> with '-', and that's how login(1) does it. Unfortunately, Emacs does
> not provide a way to alter the value of argv[0] passed to the inferior.
This wouldn't help. Tramp needs to invoke a login shell on the remote host.
I have added a note to the Tramp manual about this restriction (the
remote shell must support -l in order to use tramp-own-remote-path). I
have no idea what could be done else, so I propose to close this bug.
> Andreas.
Best regards, Michael.