From owner-cvs-all Sun Feb 7 05:29:34 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA27196 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 05:29:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from atdot.dotat.org (atdot.dotat.org [203.23.150.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA27171; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 05:29:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from newton@atdot.dotat.org) Received: (from newton@localhost) by atdot.dotat.org (8.9.2/8.7) id XAA01087; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 23:57:43 +1030 (CST) From: Mark Newton Message-Id: <199902071327.XAA01087@atdot.dotat.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern imgact_elf.c To: dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral) Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 23:57:43 +1030 (CST) Cc: jonny@jonny.eng.br, newton@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <36BC059E.3F1A4879@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at Feb 6, 99 06:04:30 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Mark Newton wrote: > > > // I don't think having the kernel give special treatment to users' > > > // environment variables is a good precedent to set. > > > Didn't Ultrix do this to select between BSD and SYSV behaviour ? > > :-) > > Do you have a better suggestion for a per user setting? Well, no, but that doesn't mean making the kernel read user environment variables is the "right" suggestion. - mark -------------------------------------------------------------------- I tried an internal modem, newton@atdot.dotat.org but it hurt when I walked. Mark Newton ----- Voice: +61-4-1958-3414 ------------- Fax: +61-8-83034403 ----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message