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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.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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