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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!uunet!mcsun!ieunet!dec4ie.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Subject: Re: A challenge to all true kernel hackers - conditional symlinks. In-Reply-To: bvs@BitBlocks.com's message of 10 Mar 93 20: 12:16 GMT Message-ID: <JKH.93Mar10215639@whisker.lotus.ie> Sender: usenet@ieunet.ie (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: whisker.lotus.ie Organization: Lotus Development Ireland References: <JKH.93Mar9214944@whisker.lotus.ie> <C3ow4H.FID@BitBlocks.com> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 21:56:39 GMT Lines: 12 The only problem with replacing open() is that you still need to deal with things like stat() and any other system call that deals with filenames (and follows links) directly. Note that I wasn't talking about usurping the $, (, and ) characters in filenames altogether, only in symbolic links. I don't think that this would be any great hardship. Jordan -- Jordan Hubbard Lotus Development Ireland jkh@whisker.lotus.ie 386bsd Patchkit Coordinator All-around nice dude. I do not speak for Lotus as that's not in my job description.