From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 3 10:29:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA25672 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 10:29:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from elvis.vnet.net (elvis.vnet.net [166.82.1.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA25667 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 10:29:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by elvis.vnet.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA13438; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 13:29:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA16847; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 13:30:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) id NAA19145; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 13:02:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 13:02:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199807031702.NAA19145@lakes.dignus.com> To: drosih@rpi.edu, wjw@surf.IAE.nl Subject: Re: Variant Link implementation, continued Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199807031543.RAA05469@surf.IAE.nl> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Then I'll be thinking about haveing 2 rules of resolution: > @{....} > and ${....} > I don't mean to badger... but what if you, in an existing installation, already have symlinks that contain that text? Won't adding this facility break those existing links? [And, don't laugh, but I do have links and files that begin with '$', and, even worse, have '$' embedded in the middle of them...] - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message