Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 10:47:58 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libfetch ftp.c http.c fetch.3 Message-ID: <17456.984214078@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "09 Mar 2001 23:44:00 %2B0100." <xzpr906d0lr.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On 09 Mar 2001 23:44:00 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> w3m supports lowercase {f,ht}tp_proxy too, probably for the same
> reason as libfetch does. Am I the only one who thinks lower-case
> environment variables names are bletcherous? Aren't lower-case names
> reserved for temporary script variables? What does POSIX say?
I don't remember POSIX saying anything on this issue, but
a) POSIX doesn't defined any lowercase envars, and
b) Reserving lowercase envars for 3rd-party applications and shell
scripts seems to be something of a convention.
Ciao,
Sheldon.
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