From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 8 08:10:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA28870 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 08:10:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (winter@sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA28760 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 08:10:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA09986; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 11:08:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 11:08:41 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Mike Smith cc: Willem Jan Withagen , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Variant Link implementation (Was: Re: lorder problem: ....... ) In-Reply-To: <199806080718.AAA09778@antipodes.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > Whoops; just to clarify; vlink_xlate(tok, dbuf, &dbofs) copies the > value of the token at (tok) into (dbuf) at (dbofs) presuming that > (dbofs) would not exceed the allowed size, updates (dbofs) and returns > 0 (all OK), 1 (not enough room) or 2 (no translation for tok available). Would it not be nicer to introduce a new file/link type? This would allow lower overall cost as you would not have to scan each link, only those links of the proper type. /* Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message