Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 18:36:48 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Variant Link implementation, continued Message-ID: <15895.899343408@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Jul 1998 16:18:44 EDT." <v04011718b1c04403264f@[128.113.24.47]>
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> My initial reaction is that I wouldn't want links to depend on values > in environment variables. If I setup some "clean environment" for a > program I'm exec-ing, I'm not going to think to copy values which are > important for these links to work. If you have ever used Apollo's Domain/OS, the advantages of having synlink behavior be configurable by something as dynamic as the user's environment become very quickly apparent. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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