From owner-cvs-all Fri Feb 5 12:33:11 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA25945 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 12:33:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from roma.coe.ufrj.br (roma.coe.ufrj.br [146.164.53.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA25817; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 12:32:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonny@jonny.eng.br) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by roma.coe.ufrj.br (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA05333; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 17:53:07 -0200 (EDT) (envelope-from jonny) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199902051953.RAA05333@roma.coe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern imgact_elf.c In-Reply-To: <199902051233.XAA01433@atdot.dotat.org> from Mark Newton at "Feb 5, 1999 11: 3:45 pm" To: newton@atdot.dotat.org (Mark Newton) Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 17:53:07 -0200 (EDT) Cc: dcs@newsguy.com, newton@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk #define quoting(Mark Newton) // Daniel C. Sobral wrote: // // > > newton 1999/02/04 19:43:19 PST // > > Modified files: // > > sys/kern imgact_elf.c // > > Log: // > > Created sysctl kern.fallback_elf_brand. Defaults to "none", which will May I suggest a name change to kern.elf_fallback_brand ? Think about a kern.elf.* sysctl node in the future. // > > give the same behaviour produced before today. If sysadmin sets it // > > to a valid ELF brand, ELF image activator will attempt to run unbranded // > > ELF exectutables as if they were branded with that value. // > // > Wouldn't this work better as an environment variable set in // > login.conf? // // 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 ? Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis M.Sc. Student jonny@jonny.eng.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro "This .sig is not meant to be politically correct." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message