From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 27 12:28:11 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id MAA26496 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 27 Jan 1995 12:28:11 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA26490; Fri, 27 Jan 1995 12:28:08 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA12182; Fri, 27 Jan 1995 15:28:01 -0500 Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 15:28:01 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9501272028.AA12182@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Am I dreaming? In-Reply-To: <199501271800.KAA23617@freefall.cdrom.com> References: <199501271800.KAA23617@freefall.cdrom.com> Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > I guess this all gets back to the whole `user mode translation of file names' > thing we were talking about awhile back. It's not the same as portals, > which require a given mount point to be traversed, but rather affects all > files who's names match some sort of selection criteria. The feature above > would be one very nice application for this. Gross! That's even more evil than variant symbolic links! -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant