Re: Getting IOCTL's into VFS File System Drivers

Kai Henningsen (kaih@khms.westfalen.de)
16 Nov 1999 09:23:00 +0200


viro@math.psu.edu (Alexander Viro) wrote on 15.11.99 in <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911150937060.13256-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>:

> > > Now, replace it with the setup when package foo sits in the directory
> > > bar\baz and you bind x: to bar\baz. Setting all pathes in config as
> > > absolute on x:
> >
> > Oh, you mean it gives you a very limited version of symlinks.
>
> You never dealt with s5fs, right?[1]

Which one was that?

>In some sense ~-expansion can also be
> considered as a very limited version of symlinks...
>
> [1] You really don't want to know the effect on one's sanity caused by mix
> of NetWhore 2.<something>, DOS boxen, couple of Xenix 5 ones and <shudder>
> VENIX.

Never seen VENIX. Never seen that particular mix, and I'm not sure about
Xenix version numbers - I *think* the ones I saw were lower. Definitely
included Xenix 286 and 386.

And I didn't see all that much of Netware 2.x.

But considering that our work LAN at one time consisted of a Netware 3.x
machine, an Interactive Unix machine, and lots of DOS clients remote
booting from the Novell machine, and the effect of that on _my_ sanity -
plus what I know about Xenix and NW2 - all I can say is, "who got killed?"

MfG Kai

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