Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] links that behave differently per calling app?
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 09:53:32
Message-Id: 2425495.eh7ynQ1BcX@peak
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] links that behave differently per calling app? by Caveman Al Toraboran
1 On Monday, 11 November 2019 04:37:17 GMT Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
2 > hi - is it possible to have some kind of fancy links that
3 > know the name of the process that is trying to access
4 > it, and based on its name, it links it to a file?
5
6 Yes, it's done all the time. Have a look at, e.g., /usr/bin/rst*, which all
7 point to ../lib/python-exec/python-exec2, which is a python script.
8
9 --
10 Regards,
11 Peter.