Xref: utzoo comp.unix.wizards:6166 comp.arch:3171 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!rutgers!umix!honey From: honey@umix.cc.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.arch Subject: Re: Jerry Pournelle on UNIX (From BYTE) Message-ID: <3470@umix.cc.umich.edu> Date: 8 Jan 88 02:08:17 GMT References: <1495@osiris.UUCP> <2126@haddock.ISC.COM> <1497@osiris.UUCP> Reply-To: honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman) Organization: Center for Information Technology Integration, Univ of Michigan Lines: 6 UUCP-Path: {uunet,rutgers}!umix!honey imagine a root partition that consists of a zillion symlinks, initially pointing to the rom disk. to change /bin/sh, just change the symlink. macintosh toolbox calls operate on a similar principle. peter