Subject: Re: kern/1781: 'magic' symbolic link expansion
To: None <cgd@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Neil J. McRae <neil@demon.net>
List: current-users
Date: 11/23/1995 22:13:17
> Expansion of 'special' strings in symlinks into system-specific
> values is a very useful feature in some situations, like:
>
> (1) when booting diskless clients (to help find various
> configuration files, etc., when sharing the same
> root partition), and
>
> (2) when trying to mount root from a CD-ROM that
> contains binaries for several architectures.
>
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Regards,
Neil.
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Neil J. McRae. Demon Internet
neil@demon.net
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