Re: Documentation patch, comment and additions requested

On 03.02.2013 05:32, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> +FIXME: Why is this? Was it part of a plan to tag other special
> +file types with different prefixes?

Yes. And it still is. Only a special file with a "link" keyword is
converted to a symbolic link on systems that support that (well ... not
on Windows, even though recent versions of NTFS know about symbolic links).

A different keyword will mean something else. For example, there's an
idea floating around to describe views (view specifications, in
ClearCase terminology) as special files whose contents are a series of
commands for creating a working copy.

Users are not allowed to define their own keywords.

-- Brane

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