Re: Globbing

[bvs@BitBlocks.com]

> punishable by death. (In case the list hasn't gathered yet, I take a
> very dim view of communicating dynamic data from one program to
> another via environment variables. Too many failure mechanisms
> otherwise. Env vars should be used for more or less long-lived
> parameters that the user knows about.)

What is needed is a unification of such mechanisms.  This falls
outside the es/rc domain but I wish there was a _compatible_ way
of mapping files to environ & argv so that one can use argv[i] or
read/write a `stdarg' file and use getenv("foo") or read a
`stdenv' file.  That'd get rid of silly size limits.  Both of
these mechanisms need to be process centered.

Hoping this causes some synapses to fire and come up with a neat
solution....

Bakul