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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 13:45:32 -0400
- From: kaplan@astro.cs.umass.edu (Alan Kaplan)
-
- The manual states in the section on filters:
-
- "Filters are written in C, compiled, and dynamically linked during name
- resolution. Because of portability problems with the dynamic linker,
- filters are not included in this release, but are available upon
- request."
-
- How does one obtain and use these filters? I noticed that there is a
- "af" command (add filter?).
-
- If you are running on a VAX, and if you ask, we can provide the code
- that implements filters. You would then have to recompile you clients
- with the filter option enabled, and with the new code included.
-
- At the moment the filter code is not in the sate of being a release.
- I have tared it up and given it to a few people though.
-
- To use a filter, you write the filter you want (or use some filters
- that we provide), compile the filter into a .o file, then use the af
- command to associate the filter with a link. The .o file must be
- available in the part of the file system accessible through Prospero.
-
- When clients supporting filters encounter a link with a filter
- attached, the filter is dynamically linked and executed when
- resolving names in the directory to which the filtered link refers.
-
- Note that there are some security issues to consider since a user
- might not be aware that a filter gets executed when a certain
- directories are listed, yet that code gets run as the user.
-
- ~ Cliff
-
-