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  1. Bug #678421
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 678421

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Egon Elbre (egon-elbre) wrote : Re: Error in ~/.profile halts the X startup

Right forgot about the variables.

After poking around in dash source I found that "$HOME/.profile" has been hardcoded. So the change needs be made in the shell to make ".profile" safe.

Also I found a way to keep the variables from subshell

### test.sh ###
ERRCODE=0
TEST=""
VARS=$(set -e; . $HOME/script.sh 1>/dev/null; set) || ERRCODE="$?"
if [ $ERRCODE==0 ]
then
    eval $VARS
fi
echo "ERRCODE =" $ERRCODE
echo " TEST =" $TEST
### script.sh ###
TEST="something"
function AddPath { echo "err" }
######

This also has one nice thing that when the script fails the environment stays unchanged. Also there may be some variables that shouldn't be taken from the subshell, but I have no idea which.