Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757658AbXI1Sal (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:30:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755488AbXI1Sa1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:30:27 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:40431 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755359AbXI1Sa0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:30:26 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:30:25 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Ken Schmidt Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 01/02] vfs: variant symlinks Message-ID: <20070928183025.GW8181@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <20070928101601.0ccc1b74.kenneth.schmidt@pnl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070928101601.0ccc1b74.kenneth.schmidt@pnl.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 522 Lines: 9 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. - 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/