> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrey V. Elsukov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > Hi, All! > > > > I've ported NetBSD magic symlinks implementation to FreeBSD. > > The description of magiclinks can been found here: > > http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/symlink.7.html > > This kind of thing has been showing up in Unix variants for a couple > of decades, but none have have ever caught on. Can you provide some > examples of what this is being used for? > > It's not clear the the thing that it looks to me like it would be most > useful for is possible. That would be making various lib directories > on 64bit platforms that supported 32bit binaries point to either lib32 > or lib64, depending on which mode the process was running in. It > doesn't look like @emul gets set for that, and the docs say that > @machine_arch depensd are the results of a uname invocation, which I > wouldn't expect to change based on the mode of the process. > > Thanks, > <mike
agree, btw, am/am-utils has most (maybe more) of this magics/semantics, and it is available on many different unix flavours, thus making it ideal for this kind of things, imho. danny _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
