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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!ai-lab!hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu!mycroft 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 Organization: /etc/organization Lines: 18 Message-ID: <1norfhINNq5o@life.ai.mit.edu> References: <JKH.93Mar9214944@whisker.lotus.ie> <C3pA4z.7CG@sugar.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.ai.mit.edu 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? -- \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu /\ \ PGP public key available on request. MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted. Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!