Subject: Re: conditional symbolic links
To: None <glass@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us>
List: current-users
Date: 11/24/1993 10:07:19
i don't believe that they should be done at the VFS level, because
you are now installing un-intended semantics in foreign filesystems.
later,
Adam Glass
I agree here; doing this "wrong" at the VFS layer might get in the way
of (e.g.,) an AFS-to-NFS translator which interpolated @sys on behalf
of the client.
Clearly the "right" way to do this is to implement a common
"@variable"-expander, invoked from certain VFS's (UFS & NFS certainly;
probably not isofs or msdos) when they detect an '@' in an entryname.
I think John Brezak meant "uname -n" when he said "uname -h".
- Bill
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