Re: GTK_MODULE (G)Option breakage & init ordering ...

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

michael meeks wrote:

>On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 17:04 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
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>>I have vague memory that modules not getting arguments is intentional
>>rather than an oversight ... that we discussed it at the point of the
>>GOption switch and decided it was fundamentally busted and
>>unsupportable.
>>
>>I may just be inventing that memory...
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>	:-) Either way - there is a workaround now; and as Federico says prolly
>going via the environment is a more robust & cleaner solution.
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>
The only issue with using the environment is that it is inherited by
child processes.  This might cause a program to think it is being
invoked as a factory when it isn't.

James.