I think essentially everyone on *nix guarantees some level of
environment - e.g., USER, PATH, probably UID and GID, and likely a few
others.
Not sure, but hey, that's why I didn't rely on it. :)
On May 31, 2010, at 4:55 PM, Michael DeHaan wrote:
If your process is execed directly from custom /bin/init is their an
ENV at all? Not that it should be likely or sane ... but it is
legal :). +1 to not relying on that whenever possible.
-- Michael
On May 31, 2010, at 5:39 PM, Luke Kanies <[email protected]> wrote:
On May 31, 2010, at 2:36 PM, William Van Hevelingen wrote:
Facter.envfact(:deploydate) { confine :kernel => %w{Windows} }
Thanks that looks great.
In general, the reason I've always avoided relying on ENV is that
it's so easy for the data to not be right at different times, at
least I think I've experienced that. It's always tough to track
whether a given ENV variable is overwriteable, guaranteed, always
set, etc.
Yea I noticed that the documentation is very hard to find
concerning the ENV object and whether any ENV variables are
guaranteed.
It's not about the ENV hash itself, it's about what the shell/
environment actually provides. And trusting, say, HP-UX vs. Debian
vs. Red Hat to provide similar information just seemed crazy. And
I wrote most of the first versions of Facter specifically because I
was so distrustful if everything the OS thought I wanted to know.
--
If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it probably needed replacing
anyway. -- Lowrey's Law
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