Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 22:23:40 -0400 From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjkfbsd@gmail.com> To: dteske@freebsd.org Cc: "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r268641 - head/usr.sbin/service Message-ID: <CAJ5_RoAP9_VVMHSmyzYbZu_B5JOscJi_z3-i8R=EjCzKY3rmAA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <011a01cfa09b$928b4710$b7a1d530$@FreeBSD.org> References: <201407150218.s6F2Itj8044531@svn.freebsd.org> <53C56BE9.9050304@FreeBSD.org> <20140715191553.GA31990@dft-labs.eu> <011a01cfa09b$928b4710$b7a1d530$@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 10:13 PM, <dteske@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Blatting out the environment feels rude and non-UNIXy. > UNIX programs can, and should expect at a minimum to > be able to interrogate the environment they are running > within -- destroying all vestiges of that environment purely > for the sake of saying "it's clean" seems counter to the > UNIX pathos. > > I'm not sure I can square this sense of "non-UNIXy" with the long-standing documented behavior of cron to only set SHELL, PATH, LOGNAME, and HOME. Surely cron is Unixy... -Ben
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