Re: Conditional SymLinks

C. Scott Ananian (cananian@lcs.mit.edu)
Sat, 13 Dec 1997 00:03:40 -0500 (EST)

Hmm. We actually seem to already have this functionality in the kernel --
to some extent, at least.

Following a symlink tonight, I found:
[cananian@cananian /lib]# ls -l cpp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 Nov 17 20:53 cpp -> ../usr/lib/gcc-lib/*linux*/2.7.2.3.f.1/cpp
[cananian@cananian /lib]# ls ../usr/lib/gcc-lib
i386-linux i586-unknown-linux-gnulibc1
[cananian@cananian gcc-lib]# echo *linux*
i386-linux i586-unknown-linux-gnulibc1

So it seems that *linux* is a 'magic' string of the type we were
discussing. Someone want to chase this down in the kernel and see if
there are other 'magic' strings defined? *uid* perhaps? =)

I don't think this is a shell thing. I may be wrong.
--Scott
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