Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 18:36:12 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org> To: bu7cher@yandex.ru Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, xdivac02@stud.fit.vutbr.cz, joel@FreeBSD.org, jwd@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Yet another magic symlinks implementation Message-ID: <17741.9196.102826.208010@bhuda.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <454C55BD.000003.22283@webmail11.yandex.ru> References: <454C55BD.000003.22283@webmail11.yandex.ru>
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In <454C55BD.000003.22283@webmail11.yandex.ru>, Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher@yandex.ru> typed: > 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 This kind of thing has been showing up in Unix variants for a couple of decades, but none have have ever caught on. Can you provide some examples of what this is being used for? It's not clear the the thing that it looks to me like it would be most useful for is possible. That would be making various lib directories on 64bit platforms that supported 32bit binaries point to either lib32 or lib64, depending on which mode the process was running in. It doesn't look like @emul gets set for that, and the docs say that @machine_arch depensd are the results of a uname invocation, which I wouldn't expect to change based on the mode of the process. Thanks, <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.
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