Re: [gentoo-user] links that behave differently per calling app?

[Walter Dnes]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 04:37:17AM +0000, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote
> hi - is it possible to have some kind of fancy links that
> know the name of the process that is trying to access
> it, and based on its name, it links it to a file?

  Short answer... YES!  Now convince the developers to use it.  Here's a
trivial example...

* Create a 2-line executable script "foo"
#!/bin/bash
echo "${0}"

* Create a symlink with the command "ln -s foo bar"

* Execute "./foo" and the output will be "./foo"

* Execute "./bar" and the output will be "./bar"

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications