On Thursday 13 March 2008, Alain Guibert wrote: > On Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 8:22:15 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Alain Guibert wrote: > >> So a command line option to select a file doesn't make much sense, > >> and would be prone to mismatches between various scripts, or be > >> forgotten when the user invokes hwclock by hand. > > > > global configuration files handle this. > > And for those global configuration files, the best way to give one > adjfile to all hwclock calls is probably environment, isn't it? config files generally setup options to pass, not environment variables. if the option to control the location is available at runtime, providing an env var back door rather than command line is just awkward. there is no sense in not simply providing a cmd line option like everything else in that case. -mike
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