Re: Variant symlinks [was Re: symlink question]

1999-06-16 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Willem Jan Withagen wrote ... > In article <53425.929320...@zippy.cdrom.com> you write: > >> And have /usr/bin point to /binaries/i386/bin or /binaries/mips/bin > > > >And before people jump on me, let me just clarify in advance that I > >was not meaning to imply that Apollo ever used the x86 a

Re: Variant symlinks [was Re: symlink question]

1999-06-16 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
In article <53425.929320...@zippy.cdrom.com> you write: >> And have /usr/bin point to /binaries/i386/bin or /binaries/mips/bin > >And before people jump on me, let me just clarify in advance that I >was not meaning to imply that Apollo ever used the x86 architecture. >They didn't. It was just an e

Re: Variant symlinks [was Re: symlink question]

1999-06-14 Thread Warner Losh
In message Marc Ramirez writes: : Well, I'd like to add versioning, too, but _that's_ hard! Versioning wouldn't be too hard to add to a filesystem. Name lookup would be impacted. The act of creating a new version would just be the creat(2) system call, or open with the O_CREAT bit set (and ma

Re: Variant symlinks [was Re: symlink question]

1999-06-14 Thread Marc Ramirez
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly is meant by a "variant link", and > > what might one be used for? > > Gee, it's refreshing to see someone other than myself bringing this > subject up. :) Well, I'd like to add versioning, too, but _that's_

RE: Variant symlinks [was Re: symlink question]

1999-06-14 Thread Ladavac Marino
> -Original Message- > From: Jordan K. Hubbard [SMTP:j...@zippy.cdrom.com] > Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 2:32 AM > Cc: Chuck Youse; Marc Ramirez; hack...@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Variant symlinks [was Re: symlink question] > > > And have /usr/bin point

Re: Variant symlinks [was Re: symlink question]

1999-06-13 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> And have /usr/bin point to /binaries/i386/bin or /binaries/mips/bin And before people jump on me, let me just clarify in advance that I was not meaning to imply that Apollo ever used the x86 architecture. They didn't. It was just an example. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...