Re:Installing and using HP-UX 9
by eichin on Monday November 10, 2025 @12:46PM
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You could do that, but @sys is resolved in the kernel - so you can use it in symlinks and just add .../bin to your path (with bin -> .bindir.@sys ) and thus it works for non path cases too...
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Not as advanced as what Domain/OS did before it - the kernel straight up evaluated arbitrary environment variables in the path resolver, which they used for things like selecting "personalities" (BSD vs SYSV vs "native") but it wasn't restricted to any particular names. "We don't make them like that anymore..."