Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 00:08:07 -0400 From: John De Boskey <jwd@bsdwins.com> To: Stable List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Cc: Current List <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: 'magic' symlink support Message-ID: <20030810040807.GA26220@BSDWins.Com>
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Hi Folks, We've been experimenting with magic symlinks. The first patch referred to below is a straight port of the patch in the netbsd pr database: http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=1781 For FreeBSD, the patch against -stable is at: http://people.freebsd.org/~jwd/mlinks/freebsd-magic-patches The second patch applies on top of the first and provides the ability to follow magic symlinks which are based upon values in the user environment (@env_XXXX). http://people.freebsd.org/~jwd/mlinks/env-magic-patches I have some very small patches against a few of the various shells since normalization of how the environment is kept is required for this set. I will get these up later this week. Amoung other things, this patch allows for some very interesting abilities within the developement environment. It is worth noting that this patch also fixes the problem of "ps -e" showing stale environment variable values. These still need to be ported/applied to -current. Please give them a try on -stable. Comments welcome. -John
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