Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 11:10:59 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Joshua Goodall <joshua@roughtrade.net> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Variant symlinks Message-ID: <20010718111059.K49840@nexus.root.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107172212230.31749-100000@elm.phenome.org>; from joshua@roughtrade.net on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 07:54:40AM %2B0100 References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107172212230.31749-100000@elm.phenome.org>
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> >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). I have an implimentation that I wrote a few weeks ago that needs some polish before I can let it out. It uses the users environment for the variable translation. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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