Re: Getting IOCTL's into VFS File System Drivers

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
15 Nov 1999 01:40:38 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911141221440.2939-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
By author: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> man csh. Ever used ~ftp in scripts? Ever moved the sucker around? Exactly.
> Now, replace it with the setup when package foo sits in the directory
> bar\baz and you bind x: to bar\baz. Setting all pathes in config as
> absolute on x:
>

I had a small login script on my DOS machine which would set up a
SUBST drive U: to point to \USER\<foo> where <foo> was whatever the
user entered at the login prompt. No password, since DOS didn't have
security anyway. Then I set up all apps to keep their datafiles on
U:<something>.

ANVIN'S LAW: NO MACHINE AS BIG AS A DESKTOP COMPUTER IS TRULY SINGLE USER.

Worked fine until Windows came along and all apps started actively
encouraging people to *save their files into the program directory*!

AAARGH!

-hpa

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