Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 10:59:37 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@surf.IAEhv.nl>, jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lorder problem: aout vs. elf (and GNU Configure problem too) Message-ID: <199806061759.KAA01286@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 06 Jun 1998 14:27:44 EDT." <199806061827.OAA16010@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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> <<On Sat, 6 Jun 1998 15:23:58 +0200 (MET DST), Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@surf.IAEhv.nl> 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.) Ok. I did actually look at how this could be implemented last time it came up, and I think it would be *reasonably* straightforward. Can you clarify the AFS syntax a little more? Is there a delimiter around the 'name'? If not, are variant components only allowed to be entire path entities? How do you put more than one entry based on a single parameter into a given directory? Or are you forced to duplicate information across more than one parameter? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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