From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 1 18:39:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA07367 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 18:39:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA07347 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 18:39:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA15899; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 18:36:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Garance A Drosihn cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Variant Link implementation, continued In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Jul 1998 16:18:44 EDT." Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 18:36:48 -0700 Message-ID: <15895.899343408@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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