From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 3 03:11:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA28682 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 03:11:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA28658 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 03:11:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) From: sthaug@nethelp.no Received: (qmail 20547 invoked by uid 1001); 3 Jul 1998 10:11:39 +0000 (GMT) To: lada@pc8811.gud.siemens.at Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Variant Link implementation, continued In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Jul 1998 10:53:06 +0200 (CEST)" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 12:11:39 +0200 Message-ID: <20545.899460699@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Some of you probably can still recollect the HP-UX Context Dependent Files > (I believe they are reduced-functionality Variant Symlinks) which existed > till HP-UX 10 threw them out. They offered the limited functionality which > could select the CDF file content based on process context (which was > basically the arch equivalent). This made it possible to have the HPPA and > Motorola executables in the same directory, with the same name. > > A workalike thereof should suffice for your needs. If anybody should ever consider something similar to HP-UX CDFs, I'd strongly suggest that this should only be available to root by default. (on the assumption that root users know what they're doing). At one of my former employers we had a large number of HP-UX diskless hosts, using CDFs. We saw far too many cases of users inadvertently having their directories "disappear" (and similar problems) because they had turned the CDF bit on. It was a real support hassle. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message