Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756950AbXI1SWf (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:22:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753664AbXI1SW2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:22:28 -0400 Received: from mail.trixing.net ([87.230.125.58]:56493 "EHLO mail.trixing.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751636AbXI1SW2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:22:28 -0400 Message-ID: <46FD4650.60009@l4x.org> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:22:08 +0200 From: Jan Dittmer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070329 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ken Schmidt CC: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070928101601.0ccc1b74.kenneth.schmidt@pnl.gov> In-Reply-To: <20070928101601.0ccc1b74.kenneth.schmidt@pnl.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.195 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jdi@l4x.org Subject: Re: [patch 01/02] vfs: variant symlinks X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:51:29 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mail.trixing.net) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 596 Lines: 17 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/