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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@piquan.org>, 23914@debbugs.gnu.org
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	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871t31bkgj.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87poqngfvd.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Sat, 09 Jul 2016 14:23:02 +0200")

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.





  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-10 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-08  8:57 bug#23914: 24.5; tramp-get-remote-path fails with some shells if tramp-own-remote-path is used Joel Ray Holveck
2016-07-09 11:38 ` Michael Albinus
2016-07-09 12:23   ` Andreas Schwab
2016-07-10 15:07     ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2016-08-20 10:05       ` Michael Albinus
2016-08-28  8:20         ` Michael Albinus

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