Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 17:13:47 -0500 From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> To: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A really hoopy idea for variant symlinks. Message-ID: <l03130300b1c5a9ee1886@[208.2.87.10]> In-Reply-To: <199807051826.NAA10291@bonkers.taronga.com>
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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.
Richard Wackerbarth
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