Re: NSProcessInfo on linux 2.2 vs 2.4

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Thursday, April 12, 2001, at 06:04 PM, Karl Kraft wrote:

> I recently upgraded a local box to 2.4 for testing out GNUstep, and 
found
> some problems with [NSProcessInfo arguments], namely that every 
program got
> an extra empty argument at the end.
>
> Before I could fix +[NSProcessInfo load], Richard patched it.  
However, this
> new patch just causes the program to segfault, and the comment by 
Richard in
> the ChangeLog is that the patch will no longer work on 2.2 kernels, 
which I
> expect I will still be supporting for the next three years.

Not at all ... the current code works fine on my 2.2 and 2.4 series 
kernels.
It certainly doesn't segfault.

It's just that, if on a 2.2 series system you pass an empty final 
argument,
NSProcessInfo won't know about it.  About the only time this has 
mattered to
me is when trying to set a user default to an empty string.

I think ideally we should have configure check the kernel version to 
allow
us to do a perfect job on both kernels though.