Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:55:24 +0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> To: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl>, gljennjohn@gmail.com, Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-filesystems@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, jordan.hubbard@gmail.com, Perry Hutchison <perryh@pluto.rain.com> Subject: Re: Thoughts on Multi-Symlink Concept Message-ID: <530C061C.9020803@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <530A47BD.6040704@digiware.nl> References: <CAO2cuEMC==HstC4VkkiFpHyo6LA_xyCjYKvCEECXneVLNnZpZg@mail.gmail.com> <A31B3F88-861F-459B-AD67-F146D5514594@mail.turbofuzz.com> <530049a1.XXZ1PjZFgRyCu9X6%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <53092D83.6050603@digiware.nl> <Pine.GSO.4.64.1402231016290.15984@sea.ntplx.net> <20140223173042.074d3eb0@ernst.home> <530A47BD.6040704@digiware.nl>
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On 2/24/14, 3:10 AM, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> On 23-2-2014 17:30, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
>> On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 10:18:31 -0500 (EST)
>> Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 16-2-2014 6:16, Perry Hutchison wrote:
>>>>> Jordan Hubbard <jordan.hubbard@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Even variant symlinks (/bin -> /${ARCH}/bin), which can expand
>>>>>> differently depending on the user context, have clearly
>>>>>> understandable semantics - you know that the symlink is going
>>>>>> to expand to exactly one file no matter what ARCH is set to.
>>>>> s/file/pathname/
>>>>>
>>>>> Depending on what ARCH is set to, the expanision may or may not
>>>>> point to any actual file (or directory, or ...)
>>>> Yes, please can we get these ....
>>>>
>>>> Apollo Domain systems had those, and they were great.
>>>> Set SYSTYPE to BSD4 and get the BSD tree and all that came with it, or
>>>> SYSV to get the other stuff.
>>>>
>>>> Would indeed work great for things like /bin or even
>>>> /usr/local/etc -> /${HOST}/usr/local/etc
>>> This topic comes up every couple of years. I recall
>>> Domain OS fondly - it was my first UNIX-like OS. I would
>>> really like variant symlinks, but I predict in another
>>> couple of years we'll be having the same conversation :-)
>>>
>> Hear, hear!
>>
>> When I saw the first post I immediately thought "is it 1994 again?"
>>
>> Well, maybe the first discussion wasn't in 1994, but it was quite
>> some time ago.
> Should be around there when I took it up for the first time.
> Last dates on the code are from 1998, but I'm shure it did not work at
> that moment.
>
> It comes around in a regular cycle about every 7 years. :)
oh it was way before 1994..
believe me. It even came before fairings.
>
> --WjW
>
>
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