dbus-launch should print semicolons

John (J5) Palmieri johnp at redhat.com
Mon Feb 13 12:58:54 PST 2006


On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 21:28 +0100, Egmont Koblinger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The output of dbus-launch is primarly intended to be used with the shells
>   eval `command`
> syntax. However, eval converts newlines to spaces. Due to this feature:
> 
> - in bash the command: eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax`
>   exports both variables instead of just the bus address

I didn't fix this one because it seemed to work but it make sense to
only export the bus address.

> - tcsh fails with "setenv: Too many arguments" if I type
>   eval `dbus-launch --csh-syntax`

This one I fixed in CVS on Friday.

Thanks.

-- 
John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>



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