From owner-cvs-all Tue May 26 13:04:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA10036 for cvs-all-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 13:04:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09849; Tue, 26 May 1998 13:04:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA01293; Tue, 26 May 1998 22:02:32 +0200 (CEST) To: Mike Smith 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 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 26 May 1998 11:48:51 PDT." <199805261848.LAA00570@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 22:02:31 +0200 Message-ID: <1291.896212951@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message <199805261848.LAA00570@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes: >> >The only other posibility would be to add a new "symlinkvarspace" to >> >each process, settable via some other means, (Poul allready screams >> >sysctl, sysctl!! :)), I still like the environment vars better, and >> >it is much easier used in scripts etc, but again I also know they >> >are hell to implement... >> >> No, I don't scream "sysctl!!", but this is the way to do it, and it >> is not hard. > >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... -- 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