From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 23 02:45:29 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CF059B56 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2014 02:45:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pb0-x235.google.com (mail-pb0-x235.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c01::235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9F4D9189F for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2014 02:45:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pb0-f53.google.com with SMTP id ma3so2414197pbc.12 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 18:45:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=content-type:mime-version:subject:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to; bh=0gJlwRfp2+YqiY0Ksft+fxcm4WppsPQAyqXSbgW80Xs=; b=l2fJUu4eZQitaa2ZQ2e5f3WC6k3zzd+Gqfl1GoSXfZLPS/fiifIRBJcbdmTs/xGIvZ w9AfAwCLgeUEnMycilZp3+eQ2Z8G5Qh9cz8mqwCqtspg+rMc90WO0tjD36dn0qocskcU H3njW5R/96/jSpQjCphsZjKfBi8TSEBZPlmaBsCnn7tog1dU6jH1b2j2cbJ3VUfhMTID OYbjLpoLDyrypxhAzoAywGwCGLQpwiHvPPW04RrGfr3GU2Be7fa3mC4dfy5IEwpxDM/f s8cfxY2Op06FCWR4MKRDzN+XhDTglSfNAuGbGVHZ/utj9T/j451bIaSSa2sml2PMd7mC 8xWA== X-Received: by 10.68.202.8 with SMTP id ke8mr17431474pbc.86.1393123529326; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 18:45:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.20.30.117] (75-101-82-48.static.sonic.net. [75.101.82.48]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id e3sm35806708pbc.17.2014.02.22.18.45.27 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 22 Feb 2014 18:45:28 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.1 \(1827\)) Subject: Re: Thoughts on Multi-Symlink Concept From: Jordan Hubbard In-Reply-To: <53092D83.6050603@digiware.nl> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 18:45:25 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <43505B61-FAE8-4A61-922E-78F6007BBFC3@gmail.com> References: <530049a1.XXZ1PjZFgRyCu9X6%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <53092D83.6050603@digiware.nl> To: Willem Jan Withagen X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1827) Cc: freebsd-filesystems@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Perry Hutchison X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 02:45:29 -0000 On Feb 22, 2014, at 3:06 PM, Willem Jan Withagen = 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