Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 16:47:29 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: bpechter@shell.monmouth.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, dhh@androcles.com Subject: Re: Linux and FreeBSD dual universe Message-ID: <21049.959525249@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 May 2000 06:41:58 EDT." <200005281042.GAA54833@bg-tc-ppp32.monmouth.com>
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In message <200005281042.GAA54833@bg-tc-ppp32.monmouth.com>, Bill Pechter write s: >> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 09:42:51 -0700 (PDT) >> From: "Duane H. Hesser" <dhh@androcles.com> >> Subject: Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel >> >> Anyone remember the old Pyramid OSX 'universe' command? >> >> command like "att ls", or even "att cc ....". The universe was >> marked by a flag which affected the interpretation of "conditional >> symbolic links". A separate syscall was available to create It did nøt use variant symbolic links, it used a namei hack. If you had a directory containing: . .. .ucbfoo .attfoo bar and you were in universe "ucb" you would see: . foo bar where "foo" would take you to ".ucbfoo" it was that simple. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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