[28] in SIPB-AFS-requests
re: @names in AFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Aug 28 09:00:58 1989
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 89 09:00:46 -0400
From: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: sipb-afsreq@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, simsong@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [24]
The name "@sys" is a magic hack in the AFS name lookup code.
If any component name ends in @sys (e.g. /foo/bin@sys/bar), then "@sys"
is replaced with some machine-specific hardwired constant string (on
Athena VAXes, that is 'vax_43'; the DECstation 3100 uses 'decmips_30').
This makes possible multiple bindirs with very little hassle or need for
symlink farms and/or duplicated trees.
John
