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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Cole <cole@opteqint.net>
Cc: "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Variant symlink filesystem
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 21:51:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160311215106.GU17997@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsf_wxdF-BkddKbu_Yke6Sid1NVLTpW+JTRnoCwhBbc3CHpVw@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:52:52PM +0200, Cole wrote:

> The implementation doesn't necessarily have to continue to work with
> env variables. On FreeBSD, the variant symlinks function by using
> variables stored in kernel memory, and have a hierarchical lookup,
> starting with user defined values and terminating with global entries.
> I am not aware of such functionality existing on linux, but if someone
> could point me at something similar to that, I would much prefer to
> use that, as there are issues with variables that are exported or
> modified during process execution.

Put your processes into a separate namespace and use mount --bind in it...

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-11 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-11 16:20 Cole
2016-03-11 16:44 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-03-11 20:04 ` Richard Weinberger
2016-03-11 20:15   ` Cole
2016-03-11 20:18     ` Richard Weinberger
2016-03-11 20:22       ` Cole
2016-03-11 20:24         ` Richard Weinberger
2016-03-11 20:32           ` Cole
2016-03-11 20:36             ` Richard Weinberger
2016-03-11 22:27             ` David Lang
2016-03-11 20:38           ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-03-11 20:52             ` Cole
2016-03-11 21:51               ` Al Viro [this message]
2016-03-11 22:03                 ` Cole
2016-03-11 22:24                   ` Al Viro
2016-03-11 22:31                     ` Cole
2016-03-11 22:48                       ` David Lang
2016-03-11 22:54                         ` Cole
2016-03-11 22:38                   ` David Lang

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