Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 21:40:01 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: sos@FreeBSD.org Cc: dfr@nlsystems.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-user@FreeBSD.org, cvs-gnu@FreeBSD.org, cvs-usrbin@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/as Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/ld Makefile sr Message-ID: <1203.896211601@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 May 1998 21:04:42 %2B0200." <199805261904.VAA19017@sos.freebsd.dk>
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In message <199805261904.VAA19017@sos.freebsd.dk>, Søren Schmidt writes: >In reply to Poul-Henning Kamp who wrote: >> In message <199805261825.UAA07236@sos.freebsd.dk>, Søren Schmidt writes: >> >> >> Variant symlinks anyone? >> > >> >That was exactly what I asked for before we started on the ELF game :) >> > >> >Like Domain OS and DGUX has them, yes yes yes.... >> > >> >Its just that they are a mess to do right.... >> >> Not if you don't make the mistake of merging them with the environment. >The only other posibility would be to add a new "symlinkvarspace" to >each process, settable via some other means, (Poul allready screams >sysctl, sysctl!! :)), I still like the environment vars better, and >it is much easier used in scripts etc, but again I also know they >are hell to implement... No, I don't scream "sysctl!!", but this is the way to do it, and it is not hard. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal
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