Hi
Sorry, it looks like this thread is not progressing in a calm and reasoned
manner, the way it was meant to be. And I'm very much to blame. So I apologise
for the strong language and passionate opinions. I'm deleting most of what I
had written as a reply so we can start over.
Let's start
On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 05:47:04PM -0800, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Friday, 15 November 2019 16:23:24 PST André Pönitz wrote:
> > > The questions are:
> > > 1) do we want to prevent another library from accidentally unsetting it?
> > > 2) do we want child processes to use the same?
> > >
> > >
On Friday, 15 November 2019 00:52:55 PST Eike Ziller wrote:
> - You state that as if that were a fact imposed on us from some external
> entity, and as if that patch were already in.
No, but that's the direction that started this conversation. If we're not
going to do that, then the entire
On Friday, 15 November 2019 16:23:24 PST André Pönitz wrote:
> > The questions are:
> > 1) do we want to prevent another library from accidentally unsetting it?
> > 2) do we want child processes to use the same?
> >
> > Note the answers for both questions must be the same, for the solution is
> >
