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Date:      Sat, 6 Feb 1999 11:32:55 +1030 (CST)
From:      Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
To:        jonny@jonny.eng.br (Joao Carlos Mendes Luis)
Cc:        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:  <199902060102.LAA07937@atdot.dotat.org>
In-Reply-To: <199902051953.RAA05333@roma.coe.ufrj.br> from "Joao Carlos Mendes Luis" at Feb 5, 99 05:53:07 pm

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Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote:

 > May I suggest a name change to kern.elf_fallback_brand ?  Think about
 > a kern.elf.* sysctl node in the future.

Suggestion noted.  I won't do another commit just for that, but 
can make the change next time I'm altering something else in that
region.

 > // I don't think having the kernel give special treatment to users'
 > // environment variables is a good precedent to set.
 > 
 > Didn't Ultrix do this to select between BSD and SYSV behaviour ?

<shudder> :-)

    - mark 

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