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Re: Consensus on allowing tunables to use GLIBC_* namespace env vars.
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- To: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 15:40:50 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Consensus on allowing tunables to use GLIBC_* namespace env vars.
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I've previously lodged my general objection to new magic environment variables.
That's not what this thread is about, so I won't discuss that here.
Talking purely about name spaces of environment variables, I do not think
that "GLIBC" should be part of any such naming convention. New environment
variables we add should start with "GNU_", and if we need a name space for
libc rather than just for GNU, "GNU_LIBC_" or "GNU_PTHREAD_" or suchlike
are reasonable.