[kde-freebsd] Re: patch needed for Xsession

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

At Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:23:57 -0600,
M. Warner Losh wrote:
> 
>   On 10/27/2010 18:20, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> > At Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:39:58 -0600,
> > M. Warner Losh wrote:
> >>    On 10/27/2010 17:38, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> >>> At Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:59:37 -0400,
> >>> Kris Moore wrote:
> >>>> I've gone ahead and fixed the Xsession we ship in PC-BSD, however
> >>>> this won't correct it for FreeBSD KDE users. This file is generated
> >>>> when the user runs "genkdmconf", and I confimed that it still produces the
> >>>> broken Xsession. We'll need to get it fixed there for everybody :)
> >>> Do you know when genkdmconf is usually run? I think there is no
> >>> problem in patching the ports tree, but if we're to commit this fix
> >>> upstream, it'd be good to first know the outcome of Warner's
> >>> discussion with jilles@ abou the right POSIX shell behaviour.
> >> It 'accidentally works' on Linux.  'expect' and 'expect -p' produce the
> >> same output.  and /bin/sh -c expect -p really is the same as /bin/sh -c
> >> expect, per POSIX parsing rules of -c.  I'm pretty sure that its
> >> required for other systems as well, since it is broken there as well.
> >>
> >> It sounds like FreeBSD's shell is posix compliant in this regard, so it
> >> isn't a bug to be fixed there.
> > Alright, so the problem's that -p is currently being interpreted as a
> > parameter to /bin/sh itself, not to the export command?
> No.  -p is $0 for the builtin command expect.

Wait, I thought we were talking about export, not expect (I don't see
expect mentioned in genkdmconfig's source code).