From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 18 22:55:21 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 576521065673 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:55:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-arch@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D57AE8FC19 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:55:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-arch@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Lk4fL-0003s9-DR for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:55:16 +0000 Received: from 93-141-116-240.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([93.141.116.240]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:55:15 +0000 Received: from ivoras by 93-141-116-240.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:55:15 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:54:43 +0100 Lines: 53 Message-ID: <49C17BB3.1010702@freebsd.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigF2732FF0C0492FAC97E24ED0" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 93-141-116-240.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Sender: news Subject: Re: Magic symlinks redux X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:55:21 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigF2732FF0C0492FAC97E24ED0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I started doing something that would be nicely solved by magic symlinks so I remembered this thread. It started some 6+ months ago here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2008-August/008473.html Is there any new development? Ivan Voras wrote: > I was reading about new things in NetBSD, and one thing caught my > attention: per-user /tmp. See > http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/bx/blosxom.cgi/nb_20080714_0251.html for > example. >=20 > Google says that a discussion about magic symlinks happens every now an= d > then in FreeBSD but nothing really gets done. I found this > implementation which looks like it's for 7.0: >=20 > http://butcher.heavennet.ru/patches/kernel/magiclinks/ >=20 > As far as I understand the VFS (which isn't much...) this looks like an= > trivial patch, and it's compatible with NetBSD. Since I'm interested in= > this (specifically for the per-user /tmp and maybe similar gadgetry), > I'd like to nurse this patch into the tree, if there are no objections > (of course, I'll bug anyone I can find who knows VFS to review it :) ).= >=20 --------------enigF2732FF0C0492FAC97E24ED0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknBe8AACgkQldnAQVacBci3EACdFymoSjzQ6cbbbCvG3l632WdZ nmoAoK1FziIPKZEjWf832/LM6QGUycDu =vrUf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigF2732FF0C0492FAC97E24ED0--