Yet another magic symlinks implementation

[Sam Leffler]

Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 11:56:29AM +0300, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
>> 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
>>
>> Patch here:
>> http://butcher.heavennet.ru/patches/kernel/magiclinks/
> 
> From what I know NetBSD removed mount flag and switched to global sysctl
> to enable/disable this feature. Would be good to know why and eventually
> do the same.

The folks that objected to the feature wanted a way to turn it off
entirely; not just on a per-mount basis.  In fact there has been
considerable pushback on the feature.  Check the netbsd mailing lists.

> 
> I like the idea and I probably can work on getting it to the tree.
> Creating perforce account for you would be a good start. Would you like
> to work there?
> 

Whatever is done please make this a feature that is enabled w/ a
compile-time option.

	Sam