Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 17:30:42 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> To: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-filesystems@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl>, Perry Hutchison <perryh@pluto.rain.com>, jordan.hubbard@gmail.com Subject: Re: Thoughts on Multi-Symlink Concept Message-ID: <20140223173042.074d3eb0@ernst.home> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.1402231016290.15984@sea.ntplx.net> References: <CAO2cuEMC==HstC4VkkiFpHyo6LA_xyCjYKvCEECXneVLNnZpZg@mail.gmail.com> <A31B3F88-861F-459B-AD67-F146D5514594@mail.turbofuzz.com> <530049a1.XXZ1PjZFgRyCu9X6%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <53092D83.6050603@digiware.nl> <Pine.GSO.4.64.1402231016290.15984@sea.ntplx.net>
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On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 10:18:31 -0500 (EST)
Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
>
> > On 16-2-2014 6:16, Perry Hutchison wrote:
> >> Jordan Hubbard <jordan.hubbard@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Even variant symlinks (/bin -> /${ARCH}/bin), which can expand
> >>> differently depending on the user context, have clearly
> >>> understandable semantics - you know that the symlink is going
> >>> to expand to exactly one file no matter what ARCH is set to.
> >>
> >> s/file/pathname/
> >>
> >> Depending on what ARCH is set to, the expanision may or may not
> >> point to any actual file (or directory, or ...)
> >
> > Yes, please can we get these ....
> >
> > Apollo Domain systems had those, and they were great.
> > Set SYSTYPE to BSD4 and get the BSD tree and all that came with it, or
> > SYSV to get the other stuff.
> >
> > Would indeed work great for things like /bin or even
> > /usr/local/etc -> /${HOST}/usr/local/etc
>
> This topic comes up every couple of years. I recall
> Domain OS fondly - it was my first UNIX-like OS. I would
> really like variant symlinks, but I predict in another
> couple of years we'll be having the same conversation :-)
>
Hear, hear!
When I saw the first post I immediately thought "is it 1994 again?"
Well, maybe the first discussion wasn't in 1994, but it was quite
some time ago.
--
Gary Jennejohn
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