[Zope-dev] Multi-homed objects?

[Steve Alexander]

Oleg Broytmann wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Chris Withers wrote:
> > How does it work in Unix? (that seems to be a good baseline :-)
> 
>    On UNIX symlink is not a link - it is a text file, that contains a name
> of resource. The name could points to nowhere, or to resource, even to
> other symlink...

So, it is up to the operating system to interpret the soft link and
redirect accordingly.

Shane's soft-link code looks like the object-oriented equivalent; a bit
of text that knows where to redirect callers to.

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Steve Alexander
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