cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall main.c

[Roman Kurakin]

Hi,

Since there is some noise around this, could we just scream for a while
that code should be fixed but allow it to still work? After some time than
the majority of the buggy code will be  fixed we will stick to the std
behavior? IMHO this will be less painful.

rik

Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 04:02:42AM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 06:57:17PM -0400, David Schultz wrote:
>>     
>>> I think Alfred is absolutely right, and this is a pretty major
>>> POLA violation. 
>>>       
>> That's -current for. Do you suggest to wait yet more N years to commit 
>> exact that stuff?
>>     
>
> Speaking about POLA, POLA says that valid call to setenv f.e. is in form
> setenv("name", "value", 1);
> it does not says that hacks like
> setenv("name=value", "value", 1);
> should be allowed and works.
>
> Moreover, putenv() isn't BSD own function, and was incorrectly implemented 
> initially in BSD. BSD implementation just violates original POLA for 
> putenv() all other use.
>
> Insisting to keep bug-to-bug compatibility forever leads to nowhere.
> And increase porting efforts greately.
>
>