Re: A few things

[Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>]

In article <199410202027.AA21308@irs.inf.tu-dresden.de> you write:
>> First the function execve() respectively _spawnve() depends on the UNIXMODE 
>> s-Flag. Is it really necessary to use UNIXMODE in this context. Without 
>> the s-Flag httpd was not able to start cgi-scripts. It took me some hours 
>> to find that.
>
>When this was discussed before on this list, most people seemed to
>like the broken _spawnve() bahaviour as the default because most
>people didn't have /bin/sh, which is why the correct behaviour can
>only be triggered with UNIXMODE-"s".  Perhaps it's time to change
>that?
>
>I think the real problem here is missing documentation.  Everyone who
>has a /bin/sh should set UNIXMODE-"s" in his mint.cnf.

 only that doesn't help when a program gives childs a `clean' environment
for security etc., like uuxqt...

 i wouldn't mind a change :)  (or make it binary configurable like
__default_mode__.)
	Juergen