Bug in /usr/X11R6/bin/startx

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Thu Sep 18 16:43:00 GMT 2003


What is the correction?

Donald Page wrote:

> Hi, sorry I couldn't find out how to raise a bug report from the web 
> site. There is a small bug in /usr/X11R6/bin/startx when $HOME contains 
> a space character which causes problems with the tests on lines 34 and 
> 43. Wrapping the test in quotes fixes the problem i.e.
> if [ -f "$userclientrc" ]; then
> if [ -f "$userserverrc" ]; then
> 
> The version of the file I used (I believe it is the latest) is
> # $Xorg: startx.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:29 cpqbld Exp $
> 



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