--nktOf83SvqltY3iw
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 03:54:18PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Elad Efrat wrote:
> > maybe if the magic symlinks had a man-page,
>=20
> See symlink(7), which is wrong (it talks about a nonexistent mount
> option), but at least it's a start.  magiclinks probably should be a
> mount option rather than a global sysctl.

It _used_ to be a per-fs mount option.  It was changed to a global knob,
apparently without a documentation update.  chs mentions a discussion on
tech-kern, but without proper reference I'm not sure where exactly the
decision was made.

--=20
Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"You could have made it, spitting out benchmarks
Owe it to yourself not to fail"
Amplifico, Spitting Out Benchmarks, Hometakes Vol. 2, 2005.

--nktOf83SvqltY3iw
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (NetBSD)

iQEVAwUBRUYKMdgoQloHrPnoAQLphwgAvMdC/h5YCC7IzJxC/9jVg9o0G5jRTdlo
ROawjN3D5vqMipORlsccAi09bPIaBivuVd22VngLsmXOPwXSws1/oHyNzBsaM1Lo
FucH7Xd5xYwWUsWF59sczSETG1dm5vDBNUeeZ09qnojWQJJcJmbP5ObiNXIZYF58
+p5h7orOVv5Md49dcsbjHkiQlEzFXX7XJnbDu4HceEYlXzfVm+G7alB9mEm/tXi9
vIgFEsUG8uMnfswYcmlq+zA81rS1dmsZ3PUBREAoVHo8smCxEyElaqWG3i/fhHrl
9PCyD6cCMXZbS/BB0NVRBZB1TfaVGpYz1Ybyiejzrd3XZMul4b3XKQ==
=T1y/
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--nktOf83SvqltY3iw--