Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 10:41:59 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: confstr v2
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On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, DJ Delorie wrote:

> I say we use whatever the current value is, without being paranoid
> about the program changing it from under itself.  Any program that
> sets $DJDIR had better know what it's doing.

The Posix draft standard clearly says that the result of confstr should 
not depend on the changes to environment variables such as PATH made by 
users or applications.  I just thought that DJDIR should be treated 
similarly.