Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 11:51:37 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, newton@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern imgact_elf.c Message-ID: <19990206115137.A79100@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199902051233.XAA01433@atdot.dotat.org>; from Mark Newton on Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 11:03:45PM %2B1030 References: <36BADC89.E8EF3B2A@newsguy.com> <199902051233.XAA01433@atdot.dotat.org>
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On Friday, 5 February 1999 at 23:03:45 +1030, Mark Newton wrote: > Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > >>> newton 1999/02/04 19:43:19 PST >>> Modified files: >>> sys/kern imgact_elf.c >>> Log: >>> Created sysctl kern.fallback_elf_brand. Defaults to "none", which will >>> give the same behaviour produced before today. If sysadmin sets it >>> to a valid ELF brand, ELF image activator will attempt to run unbranded >>> ELF exectutables as if they were branded with that value. >> >> Wouldn't this work better as an environment variable set in >> login.conf? > > I don't think having the kernel give special treatment to users' > environment variables is a good precedent to set. Possibly, but the choice of emulation *is* an individual decision. It seems to make sense to have the choice of branding dependent on the environment. I leave it to discussion how best to convey this information to the kernel. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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