In article <199511232125.PAA06202@solutions.solon.com>,
Peter Seebach  <seebs@solon.com> wrote:
> So, at that point, why not have a second floppy, which is a root filesystem,
> and which has the smarts to build a link farm?  It only needs one link -

Think about that for a second. What's going to contain the smarts? A
binary? we'd have to have fat binaries then, which is a lot "heavier"
than magic symlinks. Or were you going to have a shall script? Bzzzt...
then you have to have fat binaries or magic symlinks to get the right
/bin/sh anyway.