From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 6 11:27:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA03839 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 11:27:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA03834 for ; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 11:27:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA16010; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 14:27:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 14:27:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199806061827.OAA16010@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Willem Jan Withagen Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lorder problem: aout vs. elf (and GNU Configure problem too) In-Reply-To: <199806061323.PAA08967@surf.IAEhv.nl> References: <199806052121.OAA04575@usr08.primenet.com> <3555.897110276@time.cdrom.com> <199806061323.PAA08967@surf.IAEhv.nl> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > I do not want to debate the actual implemented syntax. But comming from > Apollo Domain OS this "feature" was one the the first things I missed when > going to "real" Unix. So I would really find this an enhancement to FreeBSD. If we really wanted to get variant symlinks, I would suggest copying the already-fairly-well-known syntax of AFS, `@name_of_parameter'. As the metasyntactic variable suggests, these should be (a fairly small number of) parameters which hold system-wide. (Indeed, given the existence of the sysctlbyname interface in the kernel, one could simply kick them off in that direction.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message