Re: GGF's extensions to GSS in Public Comment

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 01:57:57AM +0200, Martin Rex wrote:
> 
> Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > 
> > The problems with the use of environment variables are:
> > 
> > 1.  Environment variables are PLATFORM-SPECIFIC:
> > 
> >      - not all platforms can be expected to have this facility
> 
> Correct.  I was told that MacOS up to 9.x didn't have environment variables.

Thank you.

> >      - not all platforms can be expected to have the same semantics it
> 
> Someone who thinks that environment variables are a good idea probably
> has very little programming experience on Microsoft Windows platforms.

Thanks...  Sounds, er, fun?

[...]
> On most Unix systems this is impossible, because the commonly used "brk()"
> interface for process heap management and this is a highlander interface
> that cannot be used by several independent heap allocators within a
> single process.

You'd be surprised at the fun you can have with a modern runtime
linker...  :)

Cheers,

Nico
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