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

Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai asmodai at wxs.nl
Sun Nov 9 13:03:38 PST 2003


-On [20031109 21:52], Matthew Dillon (dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>sysctl -w vfs.varsym_enable=1
>
>ln -s 'a${fubar}b' test
>
>cat > axxb << EOF
>HI!
>EOF
>
>varsym fubar=xx
>cat test

For my mediocre mind: does this mean a symbolic link can point to
different things depending on the variable being set?

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