Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 18:45:25 -0800 From: Jordan Hubbard <jordan.hubbard@gmail.com> To: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl> Cc: freebsd-filesystems@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Perry Hutchison <perryh@pluto.rain.com> Subject: Re: Thoughts on Multi-Symlink Concept Message-ID: <43505B61-FAE8-4A61-922E-78F6007BBFC3@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53092D83.6050603@digiware.nl> References: <CAO2cuEMC==HstC4VkkiFpHyo6LA_xyCjYKvCEECXneVLNnZpZg@mail.gmail.com> <A31B3F88-861F-459B-AD67-F146D5514594@mail.turbofuzz.com> <530049a1.XXZ1PjZFgRyCu9X6%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <53092D83.6050603@digiware.nl>
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On Feb 22, 2014, at 3:06 PM, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl> wrote: > Yes, please can we get these .... > > Apollo Domain systems had those, and they were great. > Set SYSTYPE to BSD4 and get the BSD tree and all that came with it, or > SYSV to get the other stuff. Yep, I loved these things on Domain/OS! We system admin types used them to do all kinds of clever (and useful) things. Looks like FreeBSD has actually *had* an implementation for 6 years now. I don’t necessarily agree with the architectural decision to create a different namespace and command (varsym) to manipulate it - it was really nice just having it be a part of the standard environ(7) - but hey, any implementation is better than no implementation. Whatever happened to https://wiki.freebsd.org/200808DevSummit?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=variant-symlinks-for-freebsd.pdf ? - Jordan
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