From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 1 23: 3:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7765537B42C for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 23:03:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5263eW13396; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 02:03:41 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20010602041242.849893E33@bazooka.unixfreak.org> References: <20010602041242.849893E33@bazooka.unixfreak.org> Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 02:03:38 -0400 To: Dima Dorfman , seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Fixing documented bug in env(1) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 9:12 PM -0700 6/1/01, Dima Dorfman wrote: >Honestly, I don't care about this all that much. I'll >let you and David debate this to your liking. If no >consensus develops in the next few days, I'll just >commit what I have now. For whatever it's worth, it seems more reasonable to me to use '--' instead of '=='. Since '--' has NO equals sign in it, it clearly can't be the setting of an environment variable. It also strikes me that this might be another topic to send thru freebsd-standards@bostonradio.org, as Posix might have something to say about what's appropriate. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message