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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] webls.c - synthesize directories on the fly.
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In-Reply-To: <200310010539.h915d3j23173@augusta.math.psu.edu>; from Dan Cross on Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:39:03AM -0400
Date: Wed,  1 Oct 2003 07:41:31 +0200
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On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:39:03AM -0400, Dan Cross wrote:
> >
> > why not bind all the desired directories on somewhere,
> > let's say /usr/web/webls for example, and make webls services
> > only under the directory?
> >
> > these whatever.^(allowed denied) files remind me of unix somehow.
>
> Hmm, that's an idea.  I'll think about it.  My initial reaction is
> that you'd have to do all the binds somewhere, and have a skeletal
> directory structure under /usr/web/webls, which strikes me as tedious.
> Still, I'll give it some thought.
>
Bind(1) does not have an "exclude" function that I can know of,
which means that exclusions can only be effected by enumerating
the inclusions.  This can get extremely tedious.

++L