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

[zhengda]

Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote:
> 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.
>   
Hi,

I didn't know the rule of naming.
But I'm sure SOCK_INET_SERV_PATH can contain only one path.
so is it better to use SOCK_INET_SERV_FILE?

Best,
Zheng Da