From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 17 23:54:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from elm.phenome.org (elm.phenome.org [194.153.169.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E4F337B406 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 23:54:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joshua@roughtrade.net) Received: from localhost (joshua@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (8.12.0.Beta7/8.12.0.Beta7/Debian 8.12.0.Beta7-1) with ESMTP id f6I6seCC002576 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 07:54:40 +0100 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 07:54:40 +0100 (BST) From: Joshua Goodall X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Variant symlinks Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I heard that this topic came up (again!) at the kernel summit. I have a highly minimalist impl (i.e. substring-replace in vfs_lookup) and have a genuine interest/need in developing it to fully useful status. What was discussed/concluded? Is anyone actively working on this with a goal in sight? (I don't want to duplicate work) I have ideas of my own which I will summarise as "sysctl vs env: why not have both configurable" and leave further explication for later. Whatever happens I think libkern is going to gain a boyer-moore variant. (when the search-set is known in advance, a strstr clone sucks). Joshua To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message