Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Stephen Lee) | Date | Tue, 2 Jul 1996 16:39:32 -0400 | Subject | Re: Network performance |
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On Jul 2, 1:31pm, "Andrew C. Esh" wrote: > > >> ln -s "/usr/${BINARY_FORMAT}/lib" /usr/lib > >> > >> would make /usr/lib a link to either /usr/aout/lib or > >> /usr/elf/lib depending on the value of the environment variable > >> BINARY_FORMAT at the time the link is dereferenced. > > S> Hasn't somebody just implemented this? I saw it in one of the > S> development newsgroups, probably > S> comp.os.linux.development.kernel. > > This is something that is done as part of the a.out -> ELF conversion > process, ...
This is not what is being talked about. Somebody just created a patch that allows the kernel to follow softlinks like
/usr/lib -> /usr/${ABC}/lib
(literally). What directory /usr/lib points to then depends on the environment variable ABC, and is changable at run time.
Stephen.
-- Stephen Lee Internet: sl14@cornell.edu
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