From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jul 18 11:23: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FF2B37B403 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 11:23:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg@root.com) Received: (from dg@localhost) by root.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f6IIAxG87100; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 11:10:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 11:10:59 -0700 From: David Greenman To: Joshua Goodall Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Variant symlinks Message-ID: <20010718111059.K49840@nexus.root.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from joshua@roughtrade.net on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 07:54:40AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >I heard that this topic came up (again!) at the kernel summit. I have a >highly minimalist impl (i.e. substring-replace in vfs_lookup) and have a >genuine interest/need in developing it to fully useful status. > >What was discussed/concluded? Is anyone actively working on this with a >goal in sight? (I don't want to duplicate work) > >I have ideas of my own which I will summarise as "sysctl vs env: why not >have both configurable" and leave further explication for later. > >Whatever happens I think libkern is going to gain a boyer-moore variant. >(when the search-set is known in advance, a strstr clone sucks). I have an implimentation that I wrote a few weeks ago that needs some polish before I can let it out. It uses the users environment for the variable translation. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message