Yet another magic symlinks implementation

[Mike Meyer]

In <454C55BD.000003.22283 at webmail11.yandex.ru>, Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher at yandex.ru> typed:
> Hi, All!
> 
> I've ported NetBSD magic symlinks implementation to FreeBSD.
> The description of magiclinks can been found here:
> http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/symlink.7.html

This kind of thing has been showing up in Unix variants for a couple
of decades, but none have have ever caught on. Can you provide some
examples of what this is being used for?

It's not clear the the thing that it looks to me like it would be most
useful for is possible. That would be making various lib directories
on 64bit platforms that supported 32bit binaries point to either lib32
or lib64, depending on which mode the process was running in. It
doesn't look like @emul gets set for that, and the docs say that
@machine_arch depensd are the results of a uname invocation, which I
wouldn't expect to change based on the mode of the process.

	Thanks,
	<mike
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