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Re: OSTYPE (etc.) is clobbered
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Paul Jarc |
Subject: |
Re: OSTYPE (etc.) is clobbered |
Date: |
11 Jan 2001 16:20:51 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 |
Chet Ramey <chet@nike.INS.CWRU.Edu> writes:
> > First, I can understand wanting to set this variable, but bash should
> > not set the variable if it is already set. This is a design decision
> > with which some may disagree
>
> This seems reasonable; I will think about making the setting of
> OSTYPE, HOSTTYPE, and MACHTYPE conditional on the variables not being
> previously defined.
Here's an idea: if a particular environment variable (say,
$DONT_TOUCH_ENV) is set, don't touch any variables whatsoever (except
as directed by commands from the startup file(s) or input source). I
know I would find this useful.
paul