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Date:      Tue, 7 Jul 1998 17:54:20 -0500 (CDT)
From:      peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
To:        tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        peter@taronga.com, tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: A really hoopy idea for variant symlinks.
Message-ID:  <199807072254.RAA24074@bonkers.taronga.com>
In-Reply-To: <199807072050.NAA01036@usr04.primenet.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jul 7, 98 08:50:07 pm

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> > > The enforcement depends on the procfs (kernel code) parsing and enforcing
> > > against "absurd" values.

> > Like the file system does already? It's just namei!

> Multiple "//" within a path are treated as "/", unless it's the
> first two characters in the path, in which case it's implementation
> defined what it does.

> That covers the full gamut on what is or isn't allowable semantically
> in a path component.

OK, which means that /proc/curproc/syms/osversion is allowed in a
path. That was the point of my proposal, to avoid polluting the namespace
by using part of it.

> You would need name/value pair reduction; specifically, you would need
> to seperate the token before and after the (initial) '=' token when
> traversing the list of environment "name/value pair, '=' token seperator"
> strings.

You must be talking about someone else's hoopy idea.


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