gdm and shell rc files

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

George/gdm team:

Currently the way gdm2 works, the gdm2 Xsession file executes
/etc/profile and ~/.profile on login.  It currently doesn't
execute any files that are specific to the user's default shell.

According to the bash man page:

    "When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as  a
     non-interactive  shell  with  the  --login  option, it first
     reads and executes commands from the file  /etc/profile,  if
     that  file  exists.   After  reading that file, it looks for
     ~/.bash_profile,  ~/.bash_login,  and  ~/.profile,  in  that
     order "

According to the csh man page:

    "If the shell is a login shell, this is the sequence of invo-
     cations:  First, commands in /etc/.login are executed. Next,
     commands from the .cshrc file your home directory  are  exe-
     cuted. Then the shell executes commands from the .login file
     in your home directory; the same permission checks as  those
     for  .cshrc  are applied to this file. Typically, the .login
     file contains commands to  specify  the  terminal  type  and
     environment.  (For  an explanation of file interpreters, see
     below "Command Execution" and exec(2).)"

So, the way gdm2 currently works, user's who use bash or csh do
not get the behavior specified in the bash/csh man pages.  I
remember talking to George in the past, and I seem to remember
that he felt that gdm2 is currently doing things properly.
However, this seems broken.  Shouldn't gdm be changed to work
better with bash and csh?

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Brian