From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Ken Schmidt <kenneth.schmidt@pnl.gov>
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 01/02] vfs: variant symlinks
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:30:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070928183025.GW8181@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070928101601.0ccc1b74.kenneth.schmidt@pnl.gov>
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 10:16:01AM -0700, Ken Schmidt wrote:
> Variant symlinks add the ability to embed variables in to the contents of symbolic links so their targets can change based on outside sources (user environment, uts, filesystems, etc.)
NAK - it's too ugly to live.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-28 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-28 17:16 [patch 01/02] vfs: variant symlinks Ken Schmidt
2007-09-28 18:22 ` Jan Dittmer
2007-09-28 18:30 ` Al Viro [this message]
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