2009/200 Solaris Simlinks

Scott Rotondo Scott.Rotondo at Sun.COM
Thu Mar 26 21:24:09 PDT 2009


Rishi Srivatsavai wrote:
> Scott Rotondo wrote:
>> Simlinks is a really unfortunate name, bound to cause confusion with 
>> symlinks (symbolic links). Is this term in common use elsewhere?
> 
> I don't think it is used much elsewhere (our project gate is the 5th result
> in Google) and I doubt it would cause much confusion given that this
> is a testing resource. But if it does we can certainly re-visit the 
> choice of name in future.

In that case, I think you'd be doing your future users a favor if you 
pick a different name: emlinks, pseudolinks, simulinks, ... whatever.

	Scott

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