[6148] in Kerberos
Re: Why TELNET sends arbitrary environment variables at all?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (D. J. Bernstein)
Tue Nov 7 14:58:42 1995
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 7 Nov 1995 18:08:27 GMT
From: djb@silverton.berkeley.edu (D. J. Bernstein)
Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security Engineer <Casper.Dik@Holland.Sun.COM> wrote:
> peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
[ why should telnet bother passing anything except TERM and DISPLAY? ]
> But what about:
[ TZ, TERMCAP, LC*, LESSCHARSET, WINDOWID, PRINTER, LPDEST, EXINIT, LANG ]
Be serious. How often do you change EXINIT? Why should this be passed?
TZ does vary, but do you really want an ls -l in your home directory to
shift all the times by an hour when you connect from the next time zone?
Why should this be passed?
As for TERM and TERMCAP, it's absurd that every screen-aware program
should have to waste the time and effort to support thousands of
possible terminal codes. The right solution is obvious.
---Dan
