> > 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 !
>
> > --
> > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956
> > FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe
> > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
>
> --
> Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
> <http://www.Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org>
> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !
Poul-Henning --
OK -- then why was the link command modified to handle conditional links
(ln -c -- I think was conditional symlinks on Pyramid.
Bill
(who hasn't seen a Pyramid since I left training there in 92... but
misses them.)
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