From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 3 19:26:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA25290 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 19:26:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles316.castles.com [208.214.167.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA25274 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 19:26:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA07461; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 19:26:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807040226.TAA07461@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Thomas David Rivers cc: drosih@rpi.edu, wjw@surf.IAE.nl, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Variant Link implementation, continued In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 03 Jul 1998 13:02:38 EDT." <199807031702.NAA19145@lakes.dignus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 19:26:23 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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 '$' embedded in the middle of them...] In the existing sample implementation, you would have to have links whose names comply explicitly with the syntax ...${}... where is a valid tag in the variant link namespace. I think that this is sufficiently unlikely given that there have been only two respondents that actually use '$' in names at all... -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message