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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: A challenge to all true kernel hackers - conditional symlinks.
Date: 12 Mar 1993 02:10:57 GMT
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In article <C3pA4z.7CG@sugar.neosoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da
Silva) writes:
>
> On intel's OpenNET system, namei does a preparatory lookup on the
> file name in a couple of tables, one per UID and one global (only
> root can diddle with the global one). So you can do:
>
>	rdr @tmp /usr1/tmp
>
> Then when any process owned by you accessed "@tmp" it got "/usr/tmp".

Sounds like Plan 9, eh?

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