On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:43:35 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus 
=?UNKNOWN?Q?T=F6rnqvist?=)  said:

> I'm not sure either what Hans Reiser meant by a macro, does that mean
> a settable variable? It's a decent compromise, I think. As someone
> else stated, let's just hope for an inoffensive default.

VMS has SYS$FOO variables all over the place, but they don't have the same
semantics as a Unix environment variables.  It's unclear what scope a settable
variable for this should have - systemwide, filesystem, process group, process,
thread, or file descriptor.  Equally good cases can be made for/against each of
them.

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