From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 13 16:16:32 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3FF937B401 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:16:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from hobby.digiware.nl (hobby.digiware.nl [212.61.27.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 444F943FA3 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:16:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wjw@withagen.nl) Received: from dual (dual [212.61.27.71]) by hobby.digiware.nl (8.12.8/8.12.8a) with SMTP id h2E0GqIt018822; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 01:16:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wjw@withagen.nl) Message-ID: <001e01c2e9bf$0849b9f0$471b3dd4@digiware.nl> From: "Willem Jan Withagen" To: "Guido van Rooij" , "John" Cc: "Hackers List" References: <20030313003952.GA1800@BSDWins.Com> <20030313105557.GA84120@gvr.gvr.org> Subject: Re: magic symbolic links (ideas/patches?) 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