Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

Mike Meyer mwm at mired.org
Thu Jul 5 17:15:25 UTC 2012


On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 13:09:44 -0400
Jason Hellenthal <jhellenthal at dataix.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 06:19:31PM +0200, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
> > As long as it can be toggled off system-wide, persistently (sysctl?), I
> > can't see the harm in bringing that in.
> Haha sysctl... thats going quite a bit too far into the system for this.

Yup. A sysctl (or rc.conf variable) intended specifically to control
the behavior of shells is an even worse idea than turning this nanny
behavior on for everyone.

	 <mike
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