Re: lacking authority

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> And whether you're using csh or not, you can use "env DISPLAY= bk pull".

tcsh disagrees:

  > setenv A B
  > echo $A
  B
  > env A= echo $A
  B
  > env A=X echo $A
  B

> 
> If you're doing it a lot, an alias or function seems indicated.
> 

I already have a plethora of scripts unsetting DISPLAY and running bk. What I'd 
like to know is what the fuck is going on though.

> Or go into the source and fix it so it doesn't fuck around with $DISPLAY 
> until it's ready to use it for something.
> 

The source of what? bk doesn't come with source. And recompiling and 
reinstalling X is something I wouldn't do even if I had time and authority (pun 
intended) to do so.

And how does "fucking around with env vars" trigger pointless locking attempts 
until a timeout expiration? And what if I had the source? Of course one can fix 
hateful software (to an extent). One can also write a brand new hateful program 
from scratch. How does it make existing broken hateful software less hateful?

• Peter da Silva 15:49 on 10 Jan 2007
  • Martin Ebourne 16:04 on 10 Jan 2007
    • Peter da Silva 16:09 on 10 Jan 2007
  • Yossi Kreinin 16:10 on 10 Jan 2007
    • Martin Ebourne 16:23 on 10 Jan 2007
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    • A. Pagaltzis 21:33 on 10 Jan 2007
• Yossi Kreinin 15:54 on 10 Jan 2007
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