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SubjectRe: Implementing Meta File information in Linux
On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 02:14:06PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:

> Have you read my mail? You CAN'T put editor cursor positions or
> icon data into environment variables.

Did I say we should?

> And no, editor positions and icons are NOT per-process but per
> user.

Yes.

> You have to differentiate between per process settings and per-user
> settings. It doesn't make sense to make the password "per-thread"
> or the username "per-thread" either.

Nope.

But it does make sense for locale and timezone to be per-process,
which is what I said. By 'other' I didn't mean icons, I just meant
things like locale and timezone that I can't think of off the top of
my head.

> And yes, it _is_ a userpsace problem people want to solve here.

Yes.




-cw

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