"Garrett D'Amore" <gdamore at sun.com> wrote:
> (As far as "something better", I think I prefer something along the
> lines of how AFS handles it, where $VARIABLE could be used within a
> symbolic link -- the kernel expands the variable when following the
> symlink. But we shouldn't try to design the solution here, I think.)
This idea (kernel evaluated symlink cmponents like /usr/$ARCH/bin/) was
even in use 20+ years ago on Apollo Domain OS ;-)
J?rg
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