Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!ditmela!latcs1!vertical!greg
From: greg@vertical.oz (Greg Bond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Magic symlink syntax
Keywords: nami hack, namei hack
Message-ID: <126@vertical.oz>
Date: 16 Jun 88 07:22:20 GMT
References: <2371@quacky.mips.COM>
Reply-To: greg@vertical.oz (Greg Bond)
Organization: Vertical Software, Melbourne, Australia
Lines: 17

In article <2371@quacky.mips.COM> dce@mips.COM (David Elliott) writes:
>This is the modification that allows one to put a variable inside of
>a symbolic link target so that people can choose default execution
>"universes" or "modes" or "system types".

What do you mean by a variable?  How can such variables be set up so
that the kernel context can access them?  Not shell variables,
obviously (as the process doing the system call is not in general a
shell), but even "environment" variables can be changed by the process
and I can't see how namei would know where to look for them.

A question from the curious but not source-equipped mind of...
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