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Re: The patch of glibc which allows the user to override the pfinet serv


From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
Subject: Re: The patch of glibc which allows the user to override the pfinet server
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:12:14 +0300
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zhengda <zhengda1936@gmail.com> writes:

> Anyway, I provide two more environment variables SOCK_INET_SERV_PATH
> and SOCK_LOCAL_SERV_PATH for the pfinet server and pflocal server,
> respectively.
> I try to make my code meet the GNU coding standard.

http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#GNU-Manuals

# Please do not use the term “pathname” that is used in Unix
# documentation; use “file name” (two words) instead. We use the
# term “path” only for search paths, which are lists of directory
# names.

I wonder if that applies to names of environment variables too.
Certainly I'd expect SOCK_INET_SERV_PATH to allow a
colon-delimited list, just like PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

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