dbus-launch should print semicolons

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Mon Feb 13 22:18:21 PST 2006


On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 15:58 -0500, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> 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.

The PID variable is supposed to be set (for use by the script) but not
exported to child processes.

Havoc




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