Re: Symlink, chrdev, blkdev translators

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:06:41PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 10:11:57PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > We could implement the same weird behaviour in the /hurd/symlink translator,
> > so I don't see the difference. ;)
> 
> What data would /hurd/symlink dump? I was talking about a filesystem specific
> behaviour.

You were not talking about any behaviour specifically, just about some data.
The symlink translator could return some data, too, and it could read this
data from a "real" filesystem, too, if you desire to.  But I think it is
quite useless to scrutinize a hypothetical response to a hypothetical
example :)

Thanks,
Marcus

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