From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Allow default network type to be determined from an environmental variable
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:10:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801192110.11295.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <478A80B8.7070708@us.ibm.com>
> In the absence of a global configuration file, a reasonably sane way to
> support this configuration system wide is to use an environmental
> variable. QEMU already uses a number of global variables for
> configuring audio options.
I'd really prefer we didn't do this, and preferably obsoleted/removed the
existing environment variables. IMHO using environment variables is a really
bad idea and should be avoided wherever possible.
Environment variables are about the worst user interface I can think of. For a
start they're a global resource, which is limited on some systems.
It's also extremely hard to determine what environment a user is running. This
makes reproducing user bugs somewhere between hard and impossible.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-19 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-13 21:20 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Allow default network type to be determined from an environmental variable Anthony Liguori
2008-01-19 21:10 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2008-01-19 22:40 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-01-19 22:47 ` M. Warner Losh
2008-02-12 0:17 ` Rob Landley
2008-02-12 1:42 ` Paul Brook
2008-02-12 2:19 ` andrzej zaborowski
2008-02-12 2:46 ` Paul Brook
2008-02-12 3:47 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-02-12 12:27 ` Paul Brook
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