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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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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


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