"Olaf van der Spek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 5/16/06, Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 02:11:08PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >> >> See the system calls link(2) and symlink(2). The (Essential) coreutils >> >> package provides a userspace binary /bin/ln which makes these calls >> >> available to shell scripts. >> > That's great. Could you tell me how to use those so that script A uses >> > python 2.3 and script B uses python 2.4 without modifying the scripts? >> >> Are you seriously proposing adding runtime python version selection to the >> kernel? > > I don't care about the implementation details, but if it requires > kernel support, then yes.
How should the kernel (or any other implementation) know which script requires which python version without the scripts declaring it? -- ilmari "A disappointingly low fraction of the human race is, at any given time, on fire." - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]