Magic symlinks redux

[Ivan Voras]

Hi,

I started doing something that would be nicely solved by magic symlinks
so I remembered this thread. It started some 6+ months ago here:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2008-August/008473.html

Is there any new development?

Ivan Voras wrote:
> I was reading about new things in NetBSD, and one thing caught my
> attention: per-user /tmp. See
> http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/bx/blosxom.cgi/nb_20080714_0251.html for
> example.
> 
> Google says that a discussion about magic symlinks happens every now and
> then in FreeBSD but nothing really gets done. I found this
> implementation which looks like it's for 7.0:
> 
> http://butcher.heavennet.ru/patches/kernel/magiclinks/
> 
> As far as I understand the VFS (which isn't much...) this looks like an
> trivial patch, and it's compatible with NetBSD. Since I'm interested in
> this (specifically for the per-user /tmp and maybe similar gadgetry),
> I'd like to nurse this patch into the tree, if there are no objections
> (of course, I'll bug anyone I can find who knows VFS to review it :) ).
> 

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