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Subject: Re: Update __solve_dir_symlinks() patch
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> From: Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>
> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 15:25:07 +0200 (MET DST)
> 
> Idea: Shouln't (couldn't) /dev/env be a directory containing the
> environment variables as files or something?

That would be incompatible with the current use of /dev/env/FOO: it is
converted into the *value* of the environment variable FOO.  If that
value specifies an existing file, you will see that file, not the
variable name.

In other words, the change you are talking about will need lots of
extra code, since the current implementation of /dev/env is in
`_put_path', which has no idea what function called it.  So it cannot
possibly do different things for the same argument for, say,
`findfirst' on the one hand and for `_chmod' and `_open' on the other.