Subject: bug#23914: 24.5; tramp-get-remote-path fails with some shells if tramp-own-remote-path is used

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2016 14:23:02 +0200

Michael Albinus <[email-masked]> writes:

> Unfortunately, Posix does not specify how to force a login shell,

That's outside the scope of POSIX.

> 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.

Andreas.

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