Subject: Re: kern/1781: 'magic' symbolic link expansion
To: Ty Sarna <tsarna@endicor.com>
From: Jukka Partanen <jtp@cs.hut.fi>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/27/1995 09:06:56
Ty Sarna writes:
> I understand that Lites has magic names or symlinks. Anyone know whic=
h,
> and how they are implemented?

	The implementation is very simple. Everything is done in
	lookup() (kern/vfs_lookup.c). Currently only @sys, @cpu,
	@host, and @bin (the type of the running binary) are
	implemented. I'm probably going to add any magic variables
	NetBSD has, so that booting either Mach/Lites or NetBSD would
	be even more flexible. Currently there is a problem with
	/netbsd symlink which has to point to the Lites server in Mach
	and the running kernel in NetBSD.

	jtp

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