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Re: UNIXMODE Environment ?

To: mint@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu
Subject: Re: UNIXMODE Environment ?
From: walra@moacs.indiv.nl.net (Waldi Ravens)
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 23:11:42 +0100
Organization: private site

In <3i1utu$rjk@nasim.nasim.cube.net>, Frank Bartels wrote:

> The standard UNIXMODE should be "/brUs".

> I'd like to see these settings in the library as default and I'd like
> to throw away UNIXMODE.

I agree. The UNIXMODE-stuff relies on all programs to pass their inherited
environment to any newly spawned program. Programs that selectively create
a new environment (e.g. sendmail) don't fit into this scheme and may cause
unexpected, nasty side-effects.

Waldi

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