Subject: Re: Overriding the path for init
To: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@UX2.SP.CS.CMU.EDU>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/10/1996 20:55:55
> I'd like to be able to change the value in initpaths[0] from
> machine-dependent code. Attached are some simple changes to
> allow this. Does this look like an OK way to do it?
I suppose my question is best stated as:
Why do you want to do this?
(I can think of two reasons, offhand... and only one of them is a
'good one' to support this functionality... 8-)
I don't particularly feel comfortable with the 'initpaths' array being
'silently' exported as an interface to the machine-dependent code...
It's just sort of ... hack-ish.
cgd