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2008/8/22 Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>:

> I have an implementation derived from Andrey's port of the DragonFly
> implementation which will be committed in the next month or two.  We
> discussed it in detail at the dev summit and subject to a few more
> changes and cleanup, it's ready to go.  It allows significantly more
> flexibility than the NetBSD approach while avoiding many of the pitfalls
> involved in variant symlinks.

Does it also support special automatic variables like uid, hostname?