From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 24 14:54:27 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA23789 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 14:54:27 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA23778; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 14:54:26 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) cc: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert), freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: DEC Alpha Multia (fwd) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 24 Mar 95 13:34:44 PST." Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 14:54:25 -0800 Message-ID: <23776.796085665@freefall.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I've been thinking of adding a switch to allow > environment usage when interetting symbolic links.. > (in namei/lookup) > I see that LITES already has this.. > what it the thought on this? Heh. You've just raised my favorite wish list item, which I drag out periodically to general jeers and hoots from the audience! :-) The main problem is getting access to the environment from the namei() code. getenv/putenv all manipulate a malloc'd region in the process context and there's not even a handle on it that's easy to get to from the system. You figure that out and the expanion should be trivial! Jordan