startx file

[G Annamalai <gannam india dharma com>]

Hello all,

This question is not related to gnome, but I thought I could clarify
my doubt here itself.  Please ignore this mail if not interested.

In the startx file I see something like

if [ "x$serverargs" = x ]; then
   serverargs="$1"
else
   serverargs="$serverargs $1"
fi

I dont know why there is/was such a need.  I feel that this
if condition can just be replaced with

serverargs="$serverargs $1"

Am I right or did I overlook something?

Also,  one of the patterns in the while loop is (do refer to
the startx file, if you have got the time and patience)

/''*|\.*)

Can anyone help me know why there are two single quotes there in
that pattern?  I am not saying its not required, but I dont know
what its doing there.

I apologize for asking such an off-topic question.  But the problem 
is I am subscribed to so many mailing-lists and non of them are
related to shell scripts and I am trying to avoid subscribing to
new mailing lists.  Hope you all would understand :-X

Thanks for your time.

Rgds,
anna

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