Switch SPARC GNU coreutils+bash from 32 to 64bit [PSARC/2008/351 Self Review]

[Joerg Schilling]

"Garrett D'Amore" <gdamore at sun.com> wrote:

> (As far as "something better", I think I prefer something along the 
> lines of how AFS  handles it, where $VARIABLE could be used within a 
> symbolic link -- the kernel expands the variable when following the 
> symlink.  But we shouldn't try to design the solution here, I think.)

This idea (kernel evaluated symlink cmponents like /usr/$ARCH/bin/) was 
even in use 20+ years ago on Apollo Domain OS ;-)

Jörg

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