Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 14:41:38 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, proff@suburbia.net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: devfs Message-ID: <199704022141.OAA14577@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <13370.860013890@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 2, 97 12:44:50 pm
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> > 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.
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