Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Sep 1998 09:48:51 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux |
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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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