Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 11:56:07 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@surf.IAEhv.nl>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Variant Link implementation (Was: Re: lorder problem: ....... ) Message-ID: <199806081856.LAA00444@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Jun 1998 11:08:41 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980608110525.17992z-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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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. That would cause even more trouble; it'd be filesystem-specific then. I'd prefer something at a higher level. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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