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Re: Debian Med in CentOS HPC environment - how?



On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 09:57:06PM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
> 
> I found Plan 9's namespace concept very interesting and, while it is
> based on union mounts, it somewhat achieves the effect that modifying a
> set of environment variables would on Unix. As far as *I* understood
> (could be wrong), union mounts to use in the same way as Plan 9's
> namespaces can't be reliably/securely done with Linux without root
> privileges, or at least older versions of the kernel. I recently wrote a
> script to modify specific environment variables in a way to "activate a
> prefix directory" for using programs defined within [1].

I have not used it myself but this smells a bit what

   environment-modules

is doing.
 
Kind regards

    Andreas. 

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