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

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re: "mkdir @sys" or "touch @sys"

Nathan wrote:
> I don't think that could be made to work reasonably, because the current
> @sys stuff I imagine is just done through special handling of the
> 'readlink' system call in AFS space.

It doesn't seem like too much trouble.
@sys is presently handled in afs_lookup.  I don't think there's anything 
interesting done in readlink.

The tricky part is deciding when to treat @sys as symbolic and when
to treat it as literal...