Re: modules with rsh/ssh

[Jeff S. <jsq...@ls...>]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Jerry Hershkowitz wrote:

> As a mere mortal, I can give you a suggestion.  But, I'd like to hear
> what some of the more knowlegable Modules creators might have to say,
> too, about why the default modules installation has the C-shell
> installation split between the .login and .cshrc files.

My understanding of this is that this is an optimization.

There is some one-time initialization that can be done that will persist
across sub-shells (e.g., environment variables).  This stuff can be done
in .login so that it executes only once (although its effects last for all
children of the login shell).  Other things (such as aliases) are only
per-shell and are not inherited by children.  Hence, they must be setup
for every shell invocation.

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