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From: Joe Buehler <jbuehler AT hekimian DOT com>
Subject: Re: Beginnings of a patch: /etc/hosts
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 11:48:52 -0400
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Christopher Faylor wrote:

> I agree with this, especially in this case.  If a user casually changes
> an environment variable to something "nonstandard" then they shouldn't
> be surprised by the behavior of our tools.  This is different from
> prompting them for OS and letting the user lie if they want to.  In
> that case, I'd agree that they should be able to do this.

Environment variables are the source of a lot of trouble, and I avoid
them as much as possible.  What a great idea -- global variables in your
program that any user can change -- regardless of whether he knows he
did it, or what the effect might be!

Joe Buehler




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