[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Sat, 06 Jan 2024 21:22:20 +0000, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:

> On Sat, 2024-01-06 at 02:33 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> We can emulate logical names on Linux beyond the per-process ones with
>> a server process and communication via some IPC mechanism. D-Bus or
>> Varlink might be good enough for this.
> 
> if setenv() and getenv() were thread-safe it'd be easier to use these.

No, environment variables are no good (other than process-specific logical 
names) because they do not affect processes other than the current one.