Rodrigo Martins wrote:
> What if instead of changing every program we changed the standard
> library? We could make stdio line buffered by setting an environment
> variable.
I applaude this idea! Environment variables seems to be the right spot
for any config a library could need: are unobstrusive, can be set by the
program calling it, yet keep each program configurable by default.
Markus Wichmann <nullplan_AT_gmx.net> wrote:
> The problem you run into here is that there is more than one standard
> library.
The problem was stated here for libc's stdio, but I still like the idea
for new libraries: A call to getenv (which never fails), into xyz_init().
What about $DISPLAY, $MALLOC_OPTIONS (OpenBSD), or $LIBV4LCONTROL_FLAGS[1]
or some LIBXYZ_DEFAULT_DEV_FILE=/dev/xyz3?
Insane and breaking some important concept?
To keep for debugging purposes only?
Not to use for every kind of configuration?
Better let the programmer control the entirety of the library?
Although, if a library (or any program really) does not *require* any
configuration or environment variable and always works without that,
I like it even better.
[1]:
https://github.com/philips/libv4l/blob/cdfd29/libv4lconvert/control/libv4lcontrol.c#L369-L371
Received on Mon May 30 2022 - 08:29:17 CEST