Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 16:16:58 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: terry@lambert.org, pechter@shell.monmouth.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: no subject (file transmission) Message-ID: <199606272316.QAA06201@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <3731.835911774@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 27, 96 02:42:54 pm
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> > Only problem is that it changes the environment code to use logical > > name tables. > > > > [description of much hackery deleted] > > Yeeks! I think that price is just a little too high to pay for only > variant symlinks. Maybe phk is right - maybe it IS time for a genuine > registry. :-) Actually that's not "much hackery". It's how the environment should have been implemented in the first place. Diddling your own address space for environment is brutal. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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