> 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.

I believe it was Sequent's ``Dynix'' that had the flag-dependent 
symbolic links.  Sysv in those days didn't do symlinks at all !

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