RE: [MiNT] Proposal for SLB extension

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

Then it  might be a good idea to just take the SLBPATH parsing code found in
the MetaDOS SLBLOAD sources. I think it works.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
Of Thomas Binder
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 11:53 PM
To: MiNT List
Subject: Re: [MiNT] Proposal for SLB extension


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> Related to this: I don't see a lot of people using SLBs under MiNT if it
> doesn't support SLBPATH to locate them.

I thought about this, and I still think it's broken-by-design to
evaluate an environment variable inside a kernel call. However, I'm
going to implement it, but it's a bit tricky - parsing and checking for
a file must not lead to buffer-overflows directly inside the kernel ...