From owner-cvs-all Fri Feb 5 17:21:59 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA05692 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 17:21:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA05673; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 17:21:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA15864; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 11:51:39 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id LAA79155; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 11:51:37 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 11:51:37 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Mark Newton Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , 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> References: <36BADC89.E8EF3B2A@newsguy.com> <199902051233.XAA01433@atdot.dotat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199902051233.XAA01433@atdot.dotat.org>; from Mark Newton on Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 11:03:45PM +1030 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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