On 18 Jul 2001, Thayne Harbaugh wrote:
> This is because there isn't a mechanism for handling the config files
> that are usually found in /etc/ggi - like libgii.conf and libggi.conf.
Hmm... I thought there would be other issues and this one was only
the tip of the iceberg, but if it seems to work once you get past
this, then adding that feature would be very nice.
> not the build directories. It would be nice if libgg could use a
> LIBGG_PATH environment variable to search for config files.
I think the reason it does not now is security, in the event that
an suid executable is linked to it. If we added code to detect whether
we are running in a suid environment and disallow use of the LIBGG_PATH
variable in that case, then that might be a workable solution, but the code
to do so would have to be air-tight from the start. Don't want to be the
cause of any disasters, and if something like that can go undiscovered
for over a year in suidperl, well... let's wait til 2.1 on this one, eh?
:-)
P.S. Actually we'll be implementing some new features in the config file
system probably for the 2.1 release, so doing that then would probably
be good.
--
Brian
