- Jordan
On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 02:55 AM, Guido van Rooij wrote:
IIRC Willem-Jan Withagen has done this years ago.
I Cc ed him.
-Guido
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:39:52PM -0500, John wrote:Hi Folks,
I have a need to implement a highly specific variant usage of what are commonly referred to as magic symlinks, ie:
/src -> /.src/$ARCH/src
where $ARCH needs to come from the user environment.
A related patchset from NetBSD (1995) can be seen here:
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=1781
In my specific implementation, the value of $ARCH will ALWAYS be 3 characters (Not having implemented anything yet, and to avoid possibly playing the userland game, I was thinking of adding a field to the proc structure and having the setenv/putenv functions place the value there via a sysctl, thus allowing a very simple interface... short sighted?).
If anyone has any comments, or patches hanging around for this type of implementation, I would appreciate a pointer to them.
Many, Many Thanks, John
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