Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 14:27:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@surf.IAEhv.nl> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lorder problem: aout vs. elf (and GNU Configure problem too) Message-ID: <199806061827.OAA16010@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199806061323.PAA08967@surf.IAEhv.nl> References: <199806052121.OAA04575@usr08.primenet.com> <3555.897110276@time.cdrom.com> <199806061323.PAA08967@surf.IAEhv.nl>
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<<On Sat, 6 Jun 1998 15:23:58 +0200 (MET DST), Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@surf.IAEhv.nl> said: > I do not want to debate the actual implemented syntax. But comming from > Apollo Domain OS this "feature" was one the the first things I missed when > going to "real" Unix. So I would really find this an enhancement to FreeBSD. If we really wanted to get variant symlinks, I would suggest copying the already-fairly-well-known syntax of AFS, `@name_of_parameter'. As the metasyntactic variable suggests, these should be (a fairly small number of) parameters which hold system-wide. (Indeed, given the existence of the sysctlbyname interface in the kernel, one could simply kick them off in that direction.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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