On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 04:09:56PM -0400, Laird Nelson wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Eric Siegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Why not make the original cvs (pid 1000 in my example) export the
> > temp-dir name into an environment variable?
>
> I'd like that. One of my design goals however is to avoid patching cvs.
I would suggest that sacrificing this design goal is less risky
in the long run than any of the alternative solutions that have
been suggested... You *are* CVS-tracking the CVS sources, right?
Makes it easy to manage local patches, especially minor ones like
this is likely to be.
> All of this, of course, is to let the various *info scripts communicate
> with each other; this problem would go away with a completely revised
> trigger mechanism.
Indeed! But as you've obviously concluded, an interim solution
is called for. Might as well make it a robust one; you might
have to live with it for a while :-/
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