From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 8 13:02:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA09288 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 13:02:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.its.rpi.edu (root@mail1.its.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09113 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 13:02:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail1.its.rpi.edu (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id QAA44734 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 16:01:53 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: drosih@pop1.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199806071230.OAA28150@surf.IAEhv.nl> References: <199806061759.KAA01286@antipodes.cdrom.com> <199806061827.OAA16010@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 16:05:35 -0400 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Variant Link implementation (Was: Re: lorder problem: ....... ) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2:30 PM +0200 6/7/98, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: >mike@smith.net.au wrote: > > Can you clarify the AFS syntax a little more? Is there a delimiter > > around the 'name'? If not, are variant components only allowed to be > > entire path entities? How do you put more than one entry based on a > > single parameter into a given directory? Or are you forced to duplicate > >information across more than one parameter? > > Syntax is in some ways a cosmetic issue. What we need next to syntax is > the semantics of the variants. I have a question, given the subject of this thread. Are we talking about something that is only available when processing links, or are we talking about something that would be available for any pathname reference? In AFS, I can reference /place/program/@sys/src, as long as /place is in an AFS file system. ("@sys" is the literal string used to indicate the afs-system-variable, and afs turns that into some string such as "sun4x_55", depending on what platform you are on when the variable is expanded). --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message