Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 16:05:35 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Variant Link implementation (Was: Re: lorder problem: ....... ) Message-ID: <v04011704b1a1f25d596a@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <199806071230.OAA28150@surf.IAEhv.nl> References: <199806061759.KAA01286@antipodes.cdrom.com> <199806061827.OAA16010@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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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).
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Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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