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Date:      Mon, 8 Jun 1998 11:08:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@surf.IAEhv.nl>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Variant Link implementation (Was: Re: lorder problem: ....... ) 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980608110525.17992z-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <199806080718.AAA09778@antipodes.cdrom.com>

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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.

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   winter@jurai.net		| As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to
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