Beginnings of a patch: /etc/hosts
Joe Buehler
jbuehler@hekimian.com
Thu Sep 12 08:56:00 GMT 2002
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I agree with this, especially in this case. If a user casually changes
> an environment variable to something "nonstandard" then they shouldn't
> be surprised by the behavior of our tools. This is different from
> prompting them for OS and letting the user lie if they want to. In
> that case, I'd agree that they should be able to do this.
Environment variables are the source of a lot of trouble, and I avoid
them as much as possible. What a great idea -- global variables in your
program that any user can change -- regardless of whether he knows he
did it, or what the effect might be!
Joe Buehler
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