From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 14 12: 0:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 690D514D23 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 12:00:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id LAA27270; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 11:58:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id LAA05627; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 11:58:50 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn0.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA09168; Mon, 14 Jun 99 11:58:12 PDT Message-Id: <376550BF.CF584A8@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 12:58:07 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Youse Cc: Marc Ramirez , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: symlink question References: <003001beb5f9$9b10b480$65e684ce@sloth.yousehouse.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chuck Youse wrote: > > Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly is meant by a "variant link", and > what might one be used for? A symlink that has a variable name embedded in it. It can be quite useful at times; consider a symlink such as: /usr/local/bin/bash -> /usr/local/{karch}/bin/bash, where {karch} can be automagically expanded into i.e. i386-FreeBSD3.1 or sparc-NetBSD1.4 or hppa-hpux10. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message