> To: current-users@NetBSD.ORG
> From: tsarna@endicor.com (Ty Sarna)

> In article <9504120314.AA01784@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov>,
> Kenneth Stailey  <kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> > 
> > What about the namei hack where you symlink /usr/bin -> /usr/@sys/bin
> > and namei expands @sys into 'i386' or whatever?  It works for Lites.
> 
> Good luck... this has been proposed before without a warm reception. I
> even implemented it for ffs/mfs, and was working on nfs (though nfs is a
> pain, because the NFS code is so convoluted). John Brezak also did
> parts of it.

It should be noted that the @sys convention is derived from AFS, and
anyone seriously implementing this ought to try and make sure that
they pick the same expansions as are already in use...

(AFS typically uses architecture_osversion, eg sun4m_413. The NetBSD
AFS clients currently use i386_nbsd1 (Intel 386 NetBSD 1.0),
m68k8k_nbsd1 (for Amiga, Mac, sun3), m68k4k_nbsd1 (hp300), sparc_nbsd1
(Sun 4s)...)

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John Hawkinson
jhawk@panix.com