Re: implementing bash's magic

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> Now, it seems to be rather easy to me to implement the retry magic for tcp
> and udp in glibc/hurd/lookup-retry.c as well.  Roland, is this worth punting
> to a volunteer or would that be more trouble than just doing it yourself
> right quick?  For me it's always the hassle of assigning copyright (should
> have assigned future changes as well last time).

There's no reason to make this retry magic.  The point of retry magic
is to be able to capture parts of the calling process's local state:
for example, the file descriptor table or the current root directory.

What you are talking about should be a translator that, when you open
those names, creates the necessary network connection.