[5] in Locker Maintainers
Re: locker redirection scripts [was: xmcd]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard J. Barbalace)
Mon Nov 24 21:12:28 1997
To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Brett David Rosen <bdrosen@MIT.EDU>, locker-maintainers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 24 Nov 1997 19:18:48 -0500.
<199711250018.TAA02758@bart-savagewood.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 21:07:23 EST
From: "Richard J. Barbalace" <rjbarbal@MIT.EDU>
> Bleah! Forcing people to "add -f" a locker sucks. The script should
> check if the user already has sipb in their path and run the binary
> from there without saying anything if they do.
>
> If someone feels inspired to write a standard locker redirection
> script template, we can put it somewhere nice and canonical, like
> maybe the `lockers' locker.
This doesn't seem like it would be so difficult (no, no, no, I'm
absolutely not volunteering to do anything at all...yet).
What features would people want in such a script?
The ability to automatically start the next same-named binary in the
path? The ability to start a particular binary if the appropriate
locker is attached? The ability to attach the appropriate locker?
Other stuff?
+ R
