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From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>
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On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote:

> 
> On 16-Apr-99 Brian Beattie wrote:
> >  I am philosophically opposed to this type of feature, I believe it
> >  promotes slovenly work habits.  On the other hand as a practical matter it
> >  would probably save a lot of time, when dealing with non-professionals.
> 
> Professionals don't make mistakes? wow. I don't know any then. ;)
> 
> >  I would also agree that libc hacking is a poor route.
> 
> I think its more useful than kernel hacking.. (ie reading enviromental
> variables from the kernel would be difficult AFAIK)

Why would you think that? Copyin is your friend.

> 
> ---
> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
> for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
> "The nice thing about standards is that there
> are so many of them to choose from."
>   -- Andrew Tanenbaum
> 
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