From owner-cvs-all Tue May 26 13:13:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA11465 for cvs-all-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 13:13:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA11393; Tue, 26 May 1998 13:12:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA00665; Tue, 26 May 1998 12:03:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805261903.MAA00665@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: Mike Smith , 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 22:02:31 +0200." <1291.896212951@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 12:03:56 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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... Ah, you mean to use sysctl to access this namespace. Yes, I agree entirely. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message