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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
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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 ....
>=20
> 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=92t 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=3DAttachFile&do=3Dget&targ=
et=3Dvariant-symlinks-for-freebsd.pdf ?

- Jordan




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