Subject: Re: kernel vs boot-program
To: Tobias Weingartner <weingart@austin.BrandonU.CA>
From: John Brezak <brezak@apollo.hp.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/15/1994 09:41:27
> You write:
> 
> AAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
> # But way cool - Think of building multiple architectures on one machine with
> # the "obj" links in the form of "ln -s /usr/obj.@arch/bin/ls
> # /usr/src/bin/ld/obj" .
> 
> Hmm, this sounds like the old (but neat) HP-Apollo links... ;-)
> 
Not quite - The Apollo variant symlinks used environment variables. This proposal
has a fixed number of '@' tokens that have specific semantics. The token expansion
is done in the lookup vfs op for specific filesystems. This is modelled after the
'@sys' facility in AFS.

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