Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 22:12:47 +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: <1347.896213567@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 May 1998 12:03:56 PDT." <199805261903.MAA00665@dingo.cdrom.com>
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>> >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... > >Ah, you mean to use sysctl to access this namespace. Yes, I agree >entirely. I'm actually not sure it makes sense, it might be better to make a couple of syscalls for it, but you can do it either way... -- 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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