From: Jan Dittmer <jdi@l4x.org>
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 20:22:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46FD4650.60009@l4x.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070928101601.0ccc1b74.kenneth.schmidt@pnl.gov>
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.)
Could you elaborate why this is needed and what part cannot
be solved in userspace (linkfarm on tmpfs or intelligent
scripts)?
Thanks,
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-28 18:22 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 [this message]
2007-09-28 18:30 ` Al Viro
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