On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Ben Noordhuis wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Rick Waldron <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been following this conversation closely, but one thing that I'm still > > unclear about is _why_ process.env not a JS object (by new Object > > definition, that is). > > > > There are some obvious guesses, but I'm mostly interested in actual > > documentation or historical fact, and not at all interested in opinion or > > more guesses - thanks! > > > > > Because it's not. It's a front for a bunch of libc functions. It just > looks like an object, mostly. > > Here is the original commit[1]. Before that, process.env was a simple > copy of the environment (granted, as a pure JS object). I didn't want > to break the interface so I hacked up the thing we have today. > > [1] https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/b4def48 Thanks for info - certainly appreciated Rick > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
