From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 25 13:11:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2866437B542 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 13:11:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk) Received: from ragnet.demon.co.uk ([158.152.46.40]) by anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12v3yJ-000HtT-0X; Thu, 25 May 2000 21:11:12 +0100 Received: from dmlb by ragnet.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12v3yC-000I8b-00; Thu, 25 May 2000 21:11:04 +0100 Content-Length: 1778 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1956.959284596@localhost> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 21:11:04 +0100 (BST) From: Duncan Barclay To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Duane H.Hesser Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25-May-00 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> Anyone remember the old Pyramid OSX 'universe' command? > > Yes, I do. It was very evil. :) > > The way Apollo solved this problem was much more elegant and general > purpose and one of my favorite soapbox topics: Variant symlinks. Gosh is that the time...must be going soon... [snip] > Of course, every time we've had this discussion in the past, people > usually jump in and say that the environment variable space is > insufficiently powerful for this and what we really need is something > more like VMS logical names where you can have system-wide, group-wide > and user-specific variables which then are applied to the variant > symlink expansion. > > At that point, everyone generally agrees that it's too hard to do and > we should put off the entire concept for another couple of years. :) I have in my archives some code from the "person" who usually brings up the logical name stuff (the code implements them). However, there is also this snippet: PS: if you need the changes to namei() for variant symbolic links, ask me nicely, and I will disentangle them from my other changes to namei() for layering fixes, Unicode, and alternate namespace support (used by a modified (CIFS enhanced) Samba server which needs to have the DOS short name remain constant across directory searches). So who wants to ask him for them? > - Jordan Duncan, with tongue firmly in left cheek. --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message