Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 08:43:23 -0800 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, xdivac02@stud.fit.vutbr.cz, "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>, joel@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yet another magic symlinks implementation Message-ID: <454E14AB.6060806@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <20061105163508.GO83118@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <454C55BD.000003.22283@webmail11.yandex.ru> <20061105163508.GO83118@garage.freebsd.pl>
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Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 11:56:29AM +0300, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: >> Hi, All! >> >> I've ported NetBSD magic symlinks implementation to FreeBSD. >> The description of magiclinks can been found here: >> http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/symlink.7.html >> >> Patch here: >> http://butcher.heavennet.ru/patches/kernel/magiclinks/ > > From what I know NetBSD removed mount flag and switched to global sysctl > to enable/disable this feature. Would be good to know why and eventually > do the same. The folks that objected to the feature wanted a way to turn it off entirely; not just on a per-mount basis. In fact there has been considerable pushback on the feature. Check the netbsd mailing lists. > > I like the idea and I probably can work on getting it to the tree. > Creating perforce account for you would be a good start. Would you like > to work there? > Whatever is done please make this a feature that is enabled w/ a compile-time option. Sam
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