[OpenAFS-devel] Re: OpenAFS: conventions for new @sys? (rs_aix43 s390_linux22)

[Derrick J Brashear]

On 3 Nov 2000, Russ Allbery wrote:

> > I dunno exactly, but it seems like making a more general purpose
> > mechanism would be very useful.
> 
> Hm.  My immediate reaction is that we really don't want to break things
> that aren't broken.  I find @sys quite useful for managing a large shared
> software installation on basically every platform Transarc currently
> supports, and with a few minor tweaks it could be even more useful
> (currently, we're using fs sysname to do that tweak for AIX ourselves).
> I'd really rather not add a bunch of complexity to an idea that's already
> working fine.

Well, there's no reason something dynamic would need to break @sys, but
so far I haven't seen any good suggestions for what a dynamic replacement
for @sys would get us.

-D
(speaking only for myself)