Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:39:00 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Additional patch for toplevel Makefile driver lists |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ok, this definitely looks a lot cleaner. > > We'll end up reading and parsing the config file multiple times, something > I wonder a bit about, but my gut feel is that this is the "right" > approach.
The alternative is reading and parsing the environment variables, and they have to be copied via the execve too. I should think there's no a lot of difference between the two -- except the config file approach works :-)
-- Jamie
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