Alpha testers wanted: GNU Emacs, RMAIL, and PGP
jpp at markv.com
jpp at markv.com
Tue Jul 27 01:06:06 PDT 1993
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Learn something new every day. On *my* (SCO unix) system it is easy
to read the command line via ps. On *my* system ps -e reports on
every process, not the environment. I can find no reference to
'environment' in the ps man page. Finaly, after talking with a more
knowledgeable-than-I unix guru, I felt that the environment was a
safer place to put the passphrase.
But, since there is at least one place where this is not true (and
after reading some BSD man pages, it seems there a quite a few), I
will have to *improve* my code. I will offer all three ways
(environment, command line, and file-descriptor) to input a
passphrase. (And will try to figure out how to read the environment
of other processes under Sys V...) I would apreciate input from unix
gurus out there about which systems make the environment hard to read,
and which easy; and similar stuff about the command line, and pipes.
Thanks for your help making pgpmail even better!
j'
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