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Date:      Tue, 26 May 1998 21:40:01 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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 
Message-ID:  <1203.896211601@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 May 1998 21:04:42 %2B0200." <199805261904.VAA19017@sos.freebsd.dk> 

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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



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