[cl-debian] Re: darcs patch: document customizable images (and 6 more)
On Monday 09 January 2006 18:26, you wrote:
The current system is like it is to support sites with a large number of users. Think /home/p/pv/pv/pvaneynd. You system could pose problems at such sites.
Sorry, I don't see the specific problem. :-/ User IDs are unique,
Think 10000 users. Think of the size of the /home directory. Remember that the size of a directory does not decrease in unix. Remember that the default directory format is still a plain list. :-(
BTW did you see my preparations for clc v5? For ecl (and I support gcl) I had to split up init-common-lisp-controller-v4 into compile-common-lisp-controller-v5 to compile the files. This returns the fasls you need to load up, and init-common-lisp-controller-v5 that actually configures clc.
Yes, I have seen this and am working on load-user-image-components to return a list of compiled files using asdf::traverse, so that customized images also work with ECL.
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On 9.01.06, Peter Van Eynde wrote: Hello Peter,
Sorry, I don't see the specific problem. :-/ User IDs are unique, Think 10000 users.
Well, if that is the only problem, using UIDs is easily modified to split the directory structure into something of the form /var/cache/common-lisp-controller/some-value-from-uid/uid. We could also use use the username and put it into alphabetical subdirectories, which would still be unique. This turns the problem around: two usernames may share one UID, in which case one UID might end up with more than one fasl cache, but this does not interference with the security checks -> no problem. Just tell me your opinion on it and I'll change it, but there must be a way to avoid the current behavior which is clearly a bug, since CLC does not allow multiple users to end up with the same fasl cache. What do the other ML-lurkers think? ;-) *poll*
Great! I love it when people read my mind.
Well, actually I did read the darcs changelog and the source comments. ;-) René
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