From owner-cvs-all Tue May 26 12:41:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA04379 for cvs-all-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 12:41:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA04319; Tue, 26 May 1998 12:41:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA01205; Tue, 26 May 1998 21:40:02 +0200 (CEST) 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 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 26 May 1998 21:04:42 +0200." <199805261904.VAA19017@sos.freebsd.dk> Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 21:40:01 +0200 Message-ID: <1203.896211601@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message