On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Marek Michalkiewicz wrote: > David Engel wrote: > > About the best I can do, without further guidance, is make libc not > > echo the problem lines to stderr. Is that acceptable? > > I'm not sure. Someone could still read special files as root > (they would not see the contents, but merely reading them might > sometimes cause troubles too, if reading changes the state of > the device - as is the case with tapes, for example). > > My suggestion (not tested, but it is rather simple) - replace > all occurrences of getenv() in the resolver with safe_getenv(), > implemented like this: > ...
OK. Seeing that GNU libc, aka Linux libc 6.x, does not support the environment variables, does anyone object to me just removing them altogether? David --- David Engel Optical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081
