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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!psinntp!psinntp!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: A challenge to all true kernel hackers - conditional symlinks. Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1993 18:29:33 GMT Message-ID: <C3w61A.8wI@sugar.neosoft.com> References: <JKH.93Mar9214944@whisker.lotus.ie> <C3ow4H.FID@BitBlocks.com> <1993Mar14.070820.17710@netcom.com> Lines: 14 In article <1993Mar14.070820.17710@netcom.com> thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet) writes: > NFS and symbolic links especially don't mix: NFS is brain dead. Given my druthers, I'd dump NFS. It's fundamentally broke in so many ways it's not funny. OK, OK, NFS is sure better than the client-server stuff you get on DOS platforms, but it's long past time to replace *it*, and the low-level interfaces that support it, with something more UNIX-like. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tänään? 'U` Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.