From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 23 12:49:09 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C9FBCBB8 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2014 12:49:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.digiware.nl (smtp.digiware.nl [31.223.170.169]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 801101952 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2014 12:49:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rack1.digiware.nl (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.digiware.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF4C71534EC; Sun, 23 Feb 2014 13:49:07 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at digiware.nl Received: from smtp.digiware.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by rack1.digiware.nl (rack1.digiware.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id h4wu9Y2TDJ1d; Sun, 23 Feb 2014 13:49:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.10.9] (vaio [192.168.10.9]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.digiware.nl (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 13D86153448; Sun, 23 Feb 2014 13:49:05 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <5309EE45.8090907@digiware.nl> Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 13:49:09 +0100 From: Willem Jan Withagen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jordan Hubbard Subject: Re: Thoughts on Multi-Symlink Concept References: <530049a1.XXZ1PjZFgRyCu9X6%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <53092D83.6050603@digiware.nl> <43505B61-FAE8-4A61-922E-78F6007BBFC3@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43505B61-FAE8-4A61-922E-78F6007BBFC3@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-filesystems@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, 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: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 12:49:09 -0000 On 23-2-2014 3:45, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > On Feb 22, 2014, at 3:06 PM, Willem Jan Withagen > wrote: > >> 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. > > Yep, I loved these things on Domain/OS! We system admin types used > them to do all kinds of clever (and useful) things. > > Looks like FreeBSD has actually *had* an implementation for 6 years > now. I don’t necessarily agree with the architectural decision to > create a different namespace and command (varsym) to manipulate it - > it was really nice just having it be a part of the standard > environ(7) - but hey, any implementation is better than no > implementation. Whatever happened to > https://wiki.freebsd.org/200808DevSummit?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=variant-symlinks-for-freebsd.pdf This one came in after your previous one, which I answered extensively. But I see your point in just using ENV, makes life much more consistent. And then again: Any version is better than no version. Could do integration in due time. --WjW