Variant symlinks committed Variant symlinks now work. Here is an example:

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Sun Nov 9 12:35:33 PST 2003


sysctl -w vfs.varsym_enable=1

ln -s 'a${fubar}b' test

cat > axxb << EOF
HI!
EOF

varsym fubar=xx
cat test

    Some jail work needs to be done before they can be turned on by 
    default, if someone would like to tackle that the files in question
    are sys/varsym.h and kern/kern_varsym.c.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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