From owner-cvs-all Sat May 1 22:42:10 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BAAF14EA0 for ; Sat, 1 May 1999 22:42:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id OAA25245; Sun, 2 May 1999 14:40:36 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <372BE410.87C7D5C7@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 14:35:12 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Polstra Cc: Bjoern Fischer , cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/libexec/rtld-elf rtld.c References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk John Polstra wrote: > > What do you think? In your opinion (totally unbiased, of course), > does this argument hold water? John, remember the initial complain message? "I have used X, Y and Z, and I *hated* the way .RPATH worked." Need I say more? Well, I will, just in case. :-) There is very little that could be worse than breaking a standard that *is* used by other Unixes. You initial suggestion would add a variable used only by FreeBSD, yes, and it would *MAINTAIN COMPATIBILITY* not only with the standard, but with other OSes. Think how much people will hate you if you try to reverse the search path. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Proof of Trotsky's farsightedness if that _none_ of his predictions have come true yet." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message