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Date:      Fri, 24 Mar 1995 14:54:25 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
To:        julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert), freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: DEC Alpha Multia (fwd) 
Message-ID:  <23776.796085665@freefall.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 Mar 95 13:34:44 PST." <m0rsH0G-0003weC@TFS.COM>
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> 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
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