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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: A challenge to all true kernel hackers - conditional symlinks.
Date: 9 Mar 93 18:58:27
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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Message-ID: <CGD.93Mar9185827@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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In-reply-to: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie's message of Tue, 9 Mar 1993 21:49:44 GMT
In article <JKH.93Mar9214944@whisker.lotus.ie> jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
[ the idea ... ]
YES, that would be wonderful. it's the one thing about apollos that
i *loved*... thank god you didn't ask for `node_data... 8-)
>The question is, is anyone out there game to see what it would take to
>do this in 386bsd? I think you'll find getting at the current process
>environment from namei() somewhat tricky..
possibly impossible, w/o mods to the rest of the kernel, esp.
if processes decide to mangle their args buf...
namei takes a struct proc * of the process in question, it's just a matter
of finding the environment variables, and i can' think of
a reliable way to do that, w/o hacking exec slightly...
chris
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