On Wed, 6 Jul 2016, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Robert,
>
> In message <alpine.LFD.2.20.1607060625500.18179@localhost.localdomain> you
> wrote:
> >
> > not to be overly pedantic (too late!), but is there a preferred
> > expression for the environment stored at CONFIG_ENV_ADDR? is it
> > "permanent environment" or "saved environment" or what?
>
> I tend to call it the "persistent copy" of the environment (resp.
> copies in case of redundant environment), in contrast to the in
> memory copy of it. Upon start, the memory copy gets initialized
> from the persistent one, unless this turns out to be corrupt (or
> uninitialized, the effect is the same), in which case the builtin
> default environment is used to initialize the in memory copy.
is there a way to tell whether you're getting the current
environment from the persistent copy or from the default environment?
i'm not sure i have a pressing need for that, i'm just curious.
rday
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