Date: Sun, 01 Oct 1995 13:54:07 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin Makefile Message-ID: <24236.812580847@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Oct 1995 13:25:09 EDT." <9510011725.AA22062@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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> > Would you like to see everything from .emacs to .fvwmrc *go away*? > > No. Given that Garrett isn't much focused on applications side, I already assumed "no" there. :) > It already /is/ done correctly. Perhaps you mean `something like > sysctl(3) but done the way Jordan wants'? Ordinary users can write variables? User or group local variables can shadow system ones? Not new ideas, not even my ideas. A proper registry would have to allow that and I'd see sysctl() as being simply folded into it. Why have two parallel mechanisms? Jordan
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