From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 13 16:58:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from surf.iae.nl (surf.IAE.nl [194.151.66.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C234D14C56 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 1999 16:58:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjw@iae.nl) Received: by surf.iae.nl (Postfix, from userid 74) id 8B5C29907; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 01:58:28 +0200 (MET DST) To: mrami@gbtb.com Subject: Re: symlink question X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd.hackers In-Reply-To: Organization: Internet Access Eindhoven Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Message-Id: <19990613235828.8B5C29907@surf.iae.nl> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 01:58:28 +0200 (MET DST) From: wjw@iae.nl (Willem Jan Withagen) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article you write: > >Sorry if I'm bothering you busy folk unnecessarily... > >If I wanted to add variant symlinks, would that just require modifications >to namei, or is that way too simplistic? I've done that part with help of Mike Smith and others. I still have the changes around somewhere. it was the simpeler part of the job. The harder part is to get something to be usable to replace the variable part with. There has been some discussion on how to get information to the kernel on the variant part. And what kind of problems would go with that. I started on an excursion into sysctl to make it much more dynamic. And use the information stored in there as subsitute values for the variant-links. But since I ran out of holyday time, it has been shelved. The discussions should still be in the archives. Most probably under variant links. --WjW -- Internet Access Eindhoven BV., voice: +31-40-2 393 393, data: +31-40-2 606 606 P.O. 928, 5600 AX Eindhoven, The Netherlands Full Internet connectivity for only fl 9.95 a month. Call now, and login as 'new'. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message