From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?TWFkcyBNYXJ0aW4gSsO4cmdlbnNlbg==?= Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 14:17:20 +0000 Subject: Re: [mlmmj] Mlmmj 1.2.18.0 released Message-Id: <4FC62BF0.9090600@mmj.dk> List-Id: References: <4FC4D9CE.3010906@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4FC4D9CE.3010906@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: mlmmj@mlmmj.org On 30/05/12 16.00, Ben Schmidt wrote: > One day we might even fix things so you don't need to use the full path > to invoke the binaries. I certainly find it really annoying, and I don't > know any other application that requires it. You'd think we could figure > out what's going on from argv[0] or something. It's totally possible to just use path - but it's a security question. The less you need to parse things from the environment, the better. -- Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogical, with just a little bit more effort?" -- A. P. J.