On 28 May 2010, at 11:34, erik quanstrom wrote:
Anyway, what really stuck in my mind from Korn's post was his
characterization of symbolic links as a "non local goto", and I got
the impression from the "paper" that he was not enthusiastic about
the
idea in general, much less the implementations.
and, the whole idea breaks down unless there is a single,
global namepace.
Oh, good point. I remember having trouble with symlinks & chroots. I
had several chroots in linux with scripts to set them up, & even
symlinks from outside into the chroot (e.g. to make 32-bit home easily
accessible from 64-bit home) were enough of a nuisance that I ended up
substituting binds.
OTOH I also have a vague memory of doing something clever with a
symlink & a chroot, but I can't remember what now.
- erik
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. -- Alan Perlis
