Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 10:01:18 +0200 (MET DST) From: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@surf.IAE.nl> To: rkw@dataplex.net Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A really hoopy idea for variant symlinks. Message-ID: <199807060801.KAA16227@surf.IAE.nl> In-Reply-To: <l03130300b1c5a9ee1886@[208.2.87.10]> References: <199807051826.NAA10291@bonkers.taronga.com>
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In article <l03130300b1c5a9ee1886@[208.2.87.10]> you write:
>At 1:26 PM -0500 7/5/98, Peter da Silva wrote:
>>So yours would be under /proc/curproc/syms. and if you had permission you
>>could browse other processes you own and examine them under /proc/pid/syms.
>>
>>AND, because you're exposing them as symlinks, you don't have to change
>>how symlinks work.
>>
>>Instead of going through .../${USER}/... you'd just set up a symlink in
>>the proper place to /proc/curproc/syms/user.
>>
>>And instead of creating new system calls, you could examine the buggers
>>using "ls".
>>
>>Or diddle them from scripts.
>
>As for the mechanism to interogate and set them, this proposal seems OK to me.
>However, to have appropriate value, we need to have A SINGLE VALUE (eg:
>osversion)
>that can be referenced from multiple places. Thus changing a single value would
>change a number of links at the same time.
Also, an hierarchy in the name-space will be much more difficult.
Your favorite link will be either in /proc/pid/syms, or not.....
In which case access will just fail.
And then we'de have to start doing special things anyway, next to the thing
that I'm not so into /proc-items
But then as it goes with code here, I you like it this way... feel free
--WjW
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