From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 04:53:59 +0000 Message-ID: From: Stuart Morrow To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] What's up with $home? And a security question. Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1e410a92-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 24/02/2013, Erik Quanstrom wrote: > When do you expect environment variables to change underfoot? I wouldn't. Just because something stupid _can_ happen doesn't mean it _should_ (you can tab through form fields instead of using the mouse, but then you lose the ability to type a tab...) But I guessed someone else might make use of the possibility - rc's version of rfork knows about the environment flag to rfork() for a reason, does it not? All that environment stuff was sort of peripheral to my main question anyway; I don't care. Stuart