In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Pechter write
s:
>> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 09:42:51 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: "Duane H. Hesser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel
>>
>> Anyone remember the old Pyramid OSX 'universe' command?
>>
>> command like "att ls", or even "att cc ....". The universe was
>> marked by a flag which affected the interpretation of "conditional
>> symbolic links". A separate syscall was available to create
It did nøt use variant symbolic links, it used a namei hack.
If you had a directory containing:
.
..
.ucbfoo
.attfoo
bar
and you were in universe "ucb" you would see:
.
foo
bar
where "foo" would take you to ".ucbfoo"
it was that simple.
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