From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 2 14:00:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA27988 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 14:00:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA27978 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 14:00:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA14577; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 14:41:38 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704022141.OAA14577@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: devfs To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 14:41:38 -0700 (MST) Cc: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, proff@suburbia.net, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <13370.860013890@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 2, 97 12:44:50 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > OSx5.1 (ye olde syvr3/4.2bsd mix) from Pyramid nhad a "conditional" > > symbolic link (if I remember right) worked something like this: > > Yeah, and you also had this stupid "universe" command for > selecting the symlink value and you could only have a predefined > # of universes. No thanks, I wanted something a little more general. :-) Move the process environment into the kernel on the other side of a system call, and you can have all the variant links your crooked little heart desires. The big problem is the POSIX execve() families envp parameter; if you can decide to do away with that, or to handle it by importing it into the template process, then the last remaining issue is resolved. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.