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...? A /tmp that is a symlink to /.tmp/$euid would do the trick. The kernel should maintain a small set of these variables (euid, uid, pid) without user-intervention. A general way of adding these variables on a per-process basis would make this a much more general feature. How about: echo "cad_version 5.0" > /proc/self/variables ln -s ''/usr/cad_$cad_version'' /usr/cad Note that /proc/self is a symlink to /proc/$pid, it is no longer a special case! I think that the general "process symlink" code should be modified for this. This would allow NFS clients t...

...result? Yes. It would go a long way. However: - fixing all applications is a lot of work. (e.g. try getting such a patch into a LARGE package like gcc). - The casual script isn''t affected. > There would need to be a way to identify what the value of the link > is (/usr/cad/cad_$cad_version) as opposed to what it expands to > (/usr/cad/cad_5.0). Without this, administering this would be > difficult. Right. I expect "readlink" to simply return "cad_${cad_version}", without any modifications to ls and the like that would list as such. Programs using explicit &...