From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 25 02:55:37 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 557392B4; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 02:55:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 08B5415B3; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 02:55:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jre-mbp.elischer.org (ppp121-45-232-70.lns20.per1.internode.on.net [121.45.232.70]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s1P2tUq5051258 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 24 Feb 2014 18:55:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <530C061C.9020803@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:55:24 +0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Willem Jan Withagen , gljennjohn@gmail.com, Daniel Eischen Subject: Re: Thoughts on Multi-Symlink Concept References: <530049a1.XXZ1PjZFgRyCu9X6%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <53092D83.6050603@digiware.nl> <20140223173042.074d3eb0@ernst.home> <530A47BD.6040704@digiware.nl> In-Reply-To: <530A47BD.6040704@digiware.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-filesystems@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, jordan.hubbard@gmail.com, 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: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 02:55:37 -0000 On 2/24/14, 3:10 AM, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > On 23-2-2014 17:30, Gary Jennejohn wrote: >> On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 10:18:31 -0500 (EST) >> Daniel Eischen wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: >>> >>>> On 16-2-2014 6:16, Perry Hutchison wrote: >>>>> Jordan Hubbard wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Even variant symlinks (/bin -> /${ARCH}/bin), which can expand >>>>>> differently depending on the user context, have clearly >>>>>> understandable semantics - you know that the symlink is going >>>>>> to expand to exactly one file no matter what ARCH is set to. >>>>> s/file/pathname/ >>>>> >>>>> Depending on what ARCH is set to, the expanision may or may not >>>>> point to any actual file (or directory, or ...) >>>> Yes, please can we get these .... >>>> >>>> Apollo Domain systems had those, and they were great. >>>> Set SYSTYPE to BSD4 and get the BSD tree and all that came with it, or >>>> SYSV to get the other stuff. >>>> >>>> Would indeed work great for things like /bin or even >>>> /usr/local/etc -> /${HOST}/usr/local/etc >>> This topic comes up every couple of years. I recall >>> Domain OS fondly - it was my first UNIX-like OS. I would >>> really like variant symlinks, but I predict in another >>> couple of years we'll be having the same conversation :-) >>> >> Hear, hear! >> >> When I saw the first post I immediately thought "is it 1994 again?" >> >> Well, maybe the first discussion wasn't in 1994, but it was quite >> some time ago. > Should be around there when I took it up for the first time. > Last dates on the code are from 1998, but I'm shure it did not work at > that moment. > > It comes around in a regular cycle about every 7 years. :) oh it was way before 1994.. believe me. It even came before fairings. > > --WjW > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >