Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 13:28:23 -0600 From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: env-dependant symlinks [Was: DEC Alpha Multia (fwd)] Message-ID: <199503251928.NAA25733@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 25 Mar 95 08:23:43 PST." <25510.796148623@freefall.cdrom.com>
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Jordan says: >What we REALLY need, I suppose, is a way for another daemon process to >attach itself (well, maybe one or more daemons) and register itself as >a "translator" somehow. It would also have to have a method for >slurping context out of other processes if the environment expansion >were to work, but I imagine that this isn't totally impossible.. Sounds like a job for Portals. Also, the URL file spec seems to be handled well by ALEX... just extend it to support more than just FTP. I wouldn't do it by pattern matching on names, though. I've had a lot of experience on Xenix where this is a feature of OpenNET. You get all sorts of problems unless you name stuff *just right*. We ended up making *all* redirects (pre-namei pattern matches) start with "//". Symlinks are a superior mechanism. Anyway, the portal code should be in 4.4... you need to get someone with more kernel smarts than me to implement it though.
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