On 03.02.2013 05:32, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > +FIXME: Why is this? Was it part of a plan to tag other special > +file types with different prefixes?
Yes. And it still is. Only a special file with a "link" keyword is converted to a symbolic link on systems that support that (well ... not on Windows, even though recent versions of NTFS know about symbolic links). A different keyword will mean something else. For example, there's an idea floating around to describe views (view specifications, in ClearCase terminology) as special files whose contents are a series of commands for creating a working copy. Users are not allowed to define their own keywords. -- Brane -- Branko Čibej Director of Subversion | WANdisco | www.wandisco.com
