From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 8 13:02:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA10525 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 13:02:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA10375 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 13:02:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA00444; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 11:56:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806081856.LAA00444@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Matthew N. Dodd" cc: Mike Smith , Willem Jan Withagen , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Variant Link implementation (Was: Re: lorder problem: ....... ) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 Jun 1998 11:08:41 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 11:56:07 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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