[xmonad] darcs patch: XMonad.Core: make spawn smarter

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Sep 26, at 21:11, Devin Mullins wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 06:04:54PM -0400, Gwern Branwen wrote:
>> A user's shell when invoked as /bin/sh throws away a lot of their
>> customizations and addons; I wrote this patch for a user on #xmonad
>> who was perplexed why some of his scripts and other shell things were
>> simply Not Working.
>
> Hrm, that makes sense. If you're used to some particular bash-only
> syntax, you might expect it to work inside spawn.

Traditional Unix behavior is that something spawned programmatically  
should use /bin/sh to get a consistent environment, while something  
spawned via user interaction should use the user's $SHELL.  Quite  
possibly the core spawn should stay as is and the prompt one should  
use a new $SHELL-based spawn (note that this can be done as a wrapper  
around the existing spawn).

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