Messages in this thread |  | | From | (S. Lee) | Subject | Re: Network performance | Date | 2 Jul 1996 04:11:18 GMT |
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In article <v02140b01adf9a230b765@[207.33.68.13]>, Bruce Thompson <bruce@otherother.com> wrote: > > A touch more seriously, that reminds me of a couple of wonderful Apollo >features that I'd love to see in Linux. Those features are variant links >and extended pathnames. > > For those who've never had the privilege of working on an Apollo >system, a variant link is a symbolic link with an embedded environment >variable reference: > > ln -s "/usr/${BINARY_FORMAT}/lib" /usr/lib > >would make /usr/lib a link to either /usr/aout/lib or /usr/elf/lib >depending on the value of the environment variable BINARY_FORMAT at the >time the link is dereferenced.
Hasn't somebody just implemented this? I saw it in one of the development newsgroups, probably comp.os.linux.development.kernel.
Stephen
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