Re: method timeouts vs systemd activation and slow systems

On Thursday, 2 March 2023 13:21:25 PST Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Mar 2023 10:15:23 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > - Fix client libraries to query the daemon for the timeout (or parse
> > the configs on their own? not sure)
> 
> An environment variable would seem to be the natural way to specify
> this.

Would be far easier to parse, indeed. Querying the daemon after start would be 
second best, because it would avoid having to parse a config file.

However, environments do sometimes get cleared, so a child process somewhere 
down the tree could lose it. Obviously that can't happen for a session daemon, 
because they'd have lost the bus address too, but Colin is talking about 
servers, so sessions may not be anywhere in sight. A query to the daemon would 
apply to all processes that, well, talk to the daemon :)

Is there a security concern here for environment variables?