Re: git: 61d77e6c0095 - main - loader: allow for exceptions to restricted settings.

Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> > Long-term, we should probably work out something that can work for
> > lualoader, too.  We use setenv() there directly rather than adding a
> > layer of indirection through the command-line parser.
> 
> Yea, I'd rather this be a property of the env variable than having lists like
> this anyway. And that would solve another problem I have from time to
> time

As in noting where it can be set?

> which is needing to have an always existing env variable with a default, but
> overridable value. In these cases, you have to set that up in code, and it's a
> bit of a bother. If we do it right, we could have a three-fer: works
> with lua, works
> to set certain things immutable after a time and also lets us initialize things.
> Though getting the details right so that we can set these in
> loader.conf, but then
> not set them on the command line is the most likely use case, and I
> thought for that
> use case we did the right thing in lualoader. no?
> 
> Warner