From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 24 19:03:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA08340 for current-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 19:03:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from multivac.orthanc.com (root@multivac.orthanc.com [207.102.89.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA08322 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 19:03:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (lyndon@localhost) by multivac.orthanc.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA06487 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 19:03:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199606250203.TAA06487@multivac.orthanc.com> X-Authentication-Warning: multivac.orthanc.com: Host lyndon@localhost didn't use HELO protocol From: Lyndon Nerenberg VE7TCP To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 24 Jun 1996 17:46:50 PDT." <14239.835663610@time.cdrom.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 19:03:42 -0700 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm not sure that the safety trade-off here makes it anything I'd ever > want to deliberately encourage anyone to do. I mean, if you still > *really* wanted to do it then you could just move the relevant obj > directory aside (and I'm sure a studly guy like Nate could make a > shell function out if it so that he never had to know the > corresponding obj dir location). This is really hollering for an implementation of stackable mounts. (Or translucent mounts, or whatever the current buzzword for it is.) Stacked mounts are one of the joys of Plan 9, and we could do well by following their lead. (Wasn't there broken FS code in 4.4 that tried to implement something like this? It's been a while since I looked at a raw 4.4 source tree ...) I'm sure Terry can comment on this :-) --lyndon