Magic symlinks redux
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
des at des.no
Sat Aug 23 09:27:41 UTC 2008
Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org> writes:
> One other option we discussed at the devsummit was requiring that the first
> character of a variant symlink be special to reduce parsing overhead. I.e.
> requiring that variant symlinks start with @ or % or something.
A much tidier option (which was also discussed) is to set a bit on the
cnp if the symlink is found to be variant when it first enters the
cache. This way, we don't penalize non-variant symlinks that begin with
a @ or %.
DES
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