From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 4 01:58:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA01413 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 01:58:55 -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 BAA01408 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 01:58:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) From: sthaug@nethelp.no Received: (qmail 28708 invoked by uid 1001); 4 Jul 1998 08:58:51 +0000 (GMT) To: drosih@rpi.edu Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Variant Link implementation, continued In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 4 Jul 1998 04:14:23 -0400" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 04 Jul 1998 10:58:51 +0200 Message-ID: <28706.899542731@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> Let's say there are three namespaces (just to pick a number): > >> sys > >> session > >> process > > > > This is immediately bad, in that you want a name from the 'session' > > namespace to be able to (optionally) override a matching name from > > the 'sys' namespace. > > I don't see the problem. Which is to say, my proposal was intended > to let people do just exactly what you are asking for. > > Let's say that the "sys" namespace has a variable called "osversion". > This value is read-only to most users (except root), and is set to > the version of freebsd that the machine is actually running. > > The login process may very well copy that "osversion" value to a > variable in the "session" namespace which is also called "osversion". > Users can not change the copy of oslevel in the "sys" namespace, > but they can change the value which is in the "session" namespace. Aren't you simply reinventing VMS logical names & tables here? 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