Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 22:17:56 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: ache@nagual.pp.ru (=?koi8-r?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?=), peter@netplex.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lorder problem: aout vs. elf (and GNU Configure problem too) Message-ID: <3555.897110276@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Jun 1998 21:21:39 -0000." <199806052121.OAA04575@usr08.primenet.com>
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> My gut feeling would be to put variant symbolic links in, and use a
> dollarsign ("$") to designate a kernel variant keyword:
>
> ln -s "/usr/lib.\${\$imgact}" /usr/lib
Yuck. That's gross and you know it's gross, so I won't even try to
argue the point. Why the gratuitous complication? Just accept $foo
or ${foo} as the usual convention and, if you're absolutely dead-set
against having the kernel grub around in the user's actual environment
for this information, have it look in a logical name table someplace
with a new sysctl()'ish API for frobbing it. Too bad sysctl(8)
doesn't allow one to add new variables dynamically when the system is
up, you could even use sysctl for this one.
- Jordan
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