id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
174	Weigh merits of (not) setting EMXSHELL by default.	ataylor		"My latest yum update of all packages caused EMXSHELL to be set in CONFIG.SYS (to sh.exe).  

This caused my customary shell (YAOS) to, simply put, break horribly until I removed the setting.  

I'm not certain what the practical purpose of this setting is, but apparently it replaces CMD as the command processor for programs launched by EMX applications.  This seems like an extremely dangerous thing to do by default.  

EMX-based applications are still widespread, and many users would be at a loss to fix breakage caused by this setting.

I would recommend that EMXSHELL not be defined by default (or at least not to anything other than CMD.EXE)."	enhancement	closed	major		*none		medium	no change needed