From owner-cvs-all Sat Mar 10 0:48:24 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from lists01.iafrica.com (lists01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC13637B719; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 00:48:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@uunet.co.za) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 14bf2s-0001Lk-00; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 10:48:14 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id KAA22805; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 10:48:10 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 22691; Sat Mar 10 10:47:58 2001 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14bf2c-0004XZ-00; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 10:47:58 +0200 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libfetch ftp.c http.c fetch.3 In-reply-to: Your message of "09 Mar 2001 23:44:00 +0100." Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 10:47:58 +0200 Message-ID: <17456.984214078@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> From: Sheldon Hearn Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message