Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 17:28:23 -0500 From: "John D. Hendrickson" <johnandsara2@cox.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Why do we have @ in modules builds? Message-ID: <545AA487.7020007@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <B4ox1p00X2X408g014oycb> References: <B4ox1p00X2X408g014oycb>
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Warner Losh wrote: > Does anybody recall why we have @ symlink in our module builds? > I’m constantly working around issues that this creates. Maybe it is time > to eliminate it? > > So I’ve posted the following review: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1100 > > Warner > don't know. ideas could it be to aid directory sorting thus build order ? or for tar(1) order? (base world is static order right?) could it be used by some script for old bang notation or email notification ? ie, uucp ?
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