Re: Globbing

[haahr@mv.us.adobe.com (Paul Haahr)]

Bakul writes
> 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.

see /env in plan9.

the size limits are a pain on older systems, but i rarely run into
them anymore.  (probably not in a year.)  complain to your vendor.

paul