From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 8 14:31:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA12876 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 14:31:30 -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 OAA12868 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 14:31:21 -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 NAA00919; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 13:25:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806082025.NAA00919@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Garance A Drosihn cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Variant Link implementation (Was: Re: lorder problem: ....... ) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 Jun 1998 16:05:35 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 13:25:51 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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? We're only talking about substitutions on the target field of symbolic links. > 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). This would require parsing *every* path component. I don't think that the overheads involved in this would be popular at all. -- \\ 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