Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Need a "virtual directory" | Date | Fri, 24 Apr 1998 10:02:37 +0200 (MET DST) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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Stelian Pop wrote: > > > Hello everybody! (This is my first message in this mailing list.) > > I am searching a solution in order to have the following situation: > > ---------------------------------------------------- > Consider two users A and B. > > When A makes a "cd /virtual/src", he goes in /src/A. > When B makes a "cd /virtual/src", he goes in /src/B. > (this needs to work also when doing things like > "open(/virtual/src/mystuff.c)" ) > ---------------------------------------------------- > > This means that /virtual/src is a symbolic link, but a different symbolic > link whose destination is depending on the user (user name, or > some environment variable, whatever)
I've written something that does exactly this.
I hadn't finished writing the "userinterface" yet when I had to move on to other stuff. Prod me this weekend, and I'll see what I can come up with....
Roger.
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