Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:54:43 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Magic symlinks redux Message-ID: <49C17BB3.1010702@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <g8kv7v$sp2$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <g8kv7v$sp2$1@ger.gmane.org>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigF2732FF0C0492FAC97E24ED0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I started doing something that would be nicely solved by magic symlinks so I remembered this thread. It started some 6+ months ago here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2008-August/008473.html Is there any new development? Ivan Voras wrote: > I was reading about new things in NetBSD, and one thing caught my > attention: per-user /tmp. See > http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/bx/blosxom.cgi/nb_20080714_0251.html for > example. >=20 > Google says that a discussion about magic symlinks happens every now an= d > then in FreeBSD but nothing really gets done. I found this > implementation which looks like it's for 7.0: >=20 > http://butcher.heavennet.ru/patches/kernel/magiclinks/ >=20 > As far as I understand the VFS (which isn't much...) this looks like an= > trivial patch, and it's compatible with NetBSD. Since I'm interested in= > this (specifically for the per-user /tmp and maybe similar gadgetry), > I'd like to nurse this patch into the tree, if there are no objections > (of course, I'll bug anyone I can find who knows VFS to review it :) ).= >=20 --------------enigF2732FF0C0492FAC97E24ED0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknBe8AACgkQldnAQVacBci3EACdFymoSjzQ6cbbbCvG3l632WdZ nmoAoK1FziIPKZEjWf832/LM6QGUycDu =vrUf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigF2732FF0C0492FAC97E24ED0--
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