On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 02:55:51PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I haven t found a specific testament about that in posix:
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/toc.htm
> be it base definition or shell, and C.
> They define the meaning of HOME and getpwuid but do nto tell if env should be
> tested first. Though i always seen it like perl or pyhton does.
>
> environment is easier to crack than getwuid , that may explain why gnome
> implemented it like that. My opinion is that gnome-vfs should follow shell
> usage. But i feel that environment is broken in unix, i won t blame gnome if
> they feel the same.
I seems like a real design decision to do it this way, so i don't think it will
change unless you have very very good arguments for it..
> If it s a bug i feel its a critical one for gnome but not for debian . We
> have a strong policy against environment variables.
So then the glib behaviour is actually correct :)
> May i reopen this bug ?
Your always free to reopen bugs, but in this case it will just get
tagged WONTFIX.. So it's pointless to re-open it.
If you really want to push this on, i guess it's best to bug glib upstream
about the behaviour. But as said you will need some very good arguments.
Sjoerd
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