Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 21:04:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.org> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.org, 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: <199805261904.VAA19017@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <1027.896207552@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "May 26, 98 08:32:32 pm"
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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.
Hmm, then they are of no use :), the exact good reason to have them is
that you can use an environment var as element in a link path, that is a
very neat feature and usefull like h...
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...
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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