Re: Conditional SymLinks

Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@zip.com.au)
Mon, 15 Dec 1997 01:51:58 +1100


Adam D. Bradley wrote:
> > It wouldn't
> > hurt to have a daemon (like kerneld) feeding /etc/passwd info
> > to the kernel as requested.
>
> Even better: this whole task is ideally suited for a user-space
> filesystem using the userfs package and the libc passwd/nis resolver.

In fact, the "homer" demo filesystem which comes with it does exactly
this.

J