From owner-cvs-all Tue May 26 13:14:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA11702 for cvs-all-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 13:14:56 -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 NAA11611; Tue, 26 May 1998 13:14:05 -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 WAA01349; Tue, 26 May 1998 22:12:48 +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 12:03:56 PDT." <199805261903.MAA00665@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 22:12:47 +0200 Message-ID: <1347.896213567@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >> >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. I'm actually not sure it makes sense, it might be better to make a couple of syscalls for it, but you can do it either way... -- 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