Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 09:14:45 +0200 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, xdivac02@stud.fit.vutbr.cz, bu7cher@yandex.ru, jwd@FreeBSD.org, joel@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Yet another magic symlinks implementation Message-ID: <E1GgcDO-000BOk-19@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <17741.9196.102826.208010@bhuda.mired.org> References: <454C55BD.000003.22283@webmail11.yandex.ru> <17741.9196.102826.208010@bhuda.mired.org>
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> In <454C55BD.000003.22283@webmail11.yandex.ru>, Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher@yandex.ru> typed: > > Hi, All! > > > > I've ported NetBSD magic symlinks implementation to FreeBSD. > > The description of magiclinks can been found here: > > http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/symlink.7.html > > This kind of thing has been showing up in Unix variants for a couple > of decades, but none have have ever caught on. Can you provide some > examples of what this is being used for? > > It's not clear the the thing that it looks to me like it would be most > useful for is possible. That would be making various lib directories > on 64bit platforms that supported 32bit binaries point to either lib32 > or lib64, depending on which mode the process was running in. It > doesn't look like @emul gets set for that, and the docs say that > @machine_arch depensd are the results of a uname invocation, which I > wouldn't expect to change based on the mode of the process. > > Thanks, > <mike agree, btw, am/am-utils has most (maybe more) of this magics/semantics, and it is available on many different unix flavours, thus making it ideal for this kind of things, imho. danny
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