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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD malloc.c, -lmalloc, and squid. 
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 09:27:36 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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In message <199608280329.MAA10965@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, Michael Smith
 writes:
>Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying:
>> > 
>> > You can do it system wide:
>> > 	ln -s 'H<<' /etc/default/malloc
>> 
>> Aieee!  Another file in /etc!  sysctl!  sysctl! :-)
>
>Time to take Terry up on his logicals concept.  Anyone familiar enough with
>the way that VMS handles/d these willing to talk for a while on it?  I
>seem to recall that you could create logicals on a system-wide basis as
>well as per-session (or was that per-user?)
>
>There should be a way to integrate this with sysctl so that what are 
>currently sysctl variables become system-wide logicals with little or
>no effective change, but the concept is extended to per-process group 
>(kinda like the environment), or summat similar.

It's on it's way, I have a prototype "registry" on it's way, that would
search, in order: process, session, uid, system trees for the variable.

For now just live with the hack ok ?  I havn't even committed this 
change to malloc, it's just for testing, OK ???

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