Ticket #803 (new enhancement) — at Version 1
renew shouldn't be implemented as a shell function
Reported by: | geofft | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | normal | Milestone: | The Distant Future |
Component: | -- | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Fixed in version: | ||
Upstream bug: |
Description (last modified by andersk) (diff)
Shell functions are annoying for a couple of reasons:
- If your dotfiles are broken, you don't get them
- If you just installed Debathena and didn't start a new shell, you don't get them (this means you can't "renew" and then "blanche $USER -a debathena-announce" right after installing)
- [r24946 tcsh has not yet died in a fire but deserves to]
The reason that renew is a shell function (or alias in tcsh), as I understand it, is to avoid any chance of it searching your path, which might start with a directory in AFS, which might under some circumstances make you very marginally sad if you don't have tokens. But this is easy enough to work around by making it a shell function/alias that just runs /usr/bin/renew to shortcut the path lookup.
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