At 11:09 AM -0400 5/7/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>recall that Domain/OS (the last system that had interpolation of
>variables in pathnames) had several system-specified ones... but
>would also allow interpolation of arbitrary environment variables.
>(I shudder now to think about the security implications, but
>there were some cool uses.)
While it's easy to think of cool uses, I *really* do not want
to discuss support for arbitrary environment variables. To my
mind, it brings up too many issues wrt security and performance,
and thus it scares me off.
I think we could do a few system-specified variables though.
My guess is that it would probably be best to try for as few
as possible, just enough so we aren't trying to have @sys
serve for incompatible uses.
("incompatible" in the sense that one such use might require
a new @sys value in a situation where a different use would
neither require nor desire a new value).
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Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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