Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 22:02:31 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, dfr@nlsystems.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-user@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-gnu@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-usrbin@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/as Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/ld Makefile sr Message-ID: <1291.896212951@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 May 1998 11:48:51 PDT." <199805261848.LAA00570@dingo.cdrom.com>
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In message <199805261848.LAA00570@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes: >> >The only other posibility would be to add a new "symlinkvarspace" to >> >each process, settable via some other means, (Poul allready screams >> >sysctl, sysctl!! :)), I still like the environment vars better, and >> >it is much easier used in scripts etc, but again I also know they >> >are hell to implement... >> >> No, I don't scream "sysctl!!", but this is the way to do it, and it >> is not hard. > >Er, maybe. It makes per-session variance somewhat difficult though. No. The problem is that using env-vars is not only messy and unwieldy but also slow and prone to security problems. Using a specific namespace which is inherited on fork will DTRT and be efficient at the same time, without breaking scripts which happen to use the "wrong" name for an env-var... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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