svn commit: r268641 - head/usr.sbin/service

Benjamin Kaduk bjkfbsd at gmail.com
Wed Jul 16 02:23:41 UTC 2014


On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 10:13 PM, <dteske at freebsd.org> wrote:

>
> Blatting out the environment feels rude and non-UNIXy.
> UNIX programs can, and should expect at a minimum to
> be able to interrogate the environment they are running
> within -- destroying all vestiges of that environment purely
> for the sake of saying "it's clean" seems counter to the
> UNIX pathos.
>
>
I'm not sure I can square this sense of "non-UNIXy" with the long-standing
documented behavior of cron to only set SHELL, PATH, LOGNAME, and HOME.
 Surely cron is Unixy...

-Ben


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