Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 21:16:17 -0800 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) To: jordan.hubbard@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-filesystems@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thoughts on Multi-Symlink Concept Message-ID: <530049a1.XXZ1PjZFgRyCu9X6%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <A31B3F88-861F-459B-AD67-F146D5514594@mail.turbofuzz.com> References: <CAO2cuEMC==HstC4VkkiFpHyo6LA_xyCjYKvCEECXneVLNnZpZg@mail.gmail.com> <A31B3F88-861F-459B-AD67-F146D5514594@mail.turbofuzz.com>
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Jordan Hubbard <jordan.hubbard@gmail.com> wrote:
> Even variant symlinks (/bin -> /${ARCH}/bin), which can expand
> differently depending on the user context, have clearly
> understandable semantics - you know that the symlink is going
> to expand to exactly one file no matter what ARCH is set to.
s/file/pathname/
Depending on what ARCH is set to, the expanision may or may not
point to any actual file (or directory, or ...)
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