Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:49:30 +0100 (CET) | From | Stephan Meyer <> | Subject | Re: devfs |
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On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jan 1998 jalvo@cloud9.net (John G. Alvord) wrote: > > > >/dev/disk/sd.h0.c0/i3.d0.p1???? > > > The use of letters like h and d is rather English-centric for the exact > > physical name. A pure dot/dash/underline separated physical name > > would require less to explain for non-Englishspeakers. > > And "/dev/disk" isn't english-centric? What does "/dev" mean for all > those non-English-speakers? Does "sd" not stand for "SCSI Disk"? > I think this reasoning is suspect.
No, it isn't. (ok, IMHO :)
Translating a word is easy, I read it, I get the meaning.
But guessing, as a non-native-English-speaking person, what word a letter might stand for is nowhere near being intuitive. Put dots in between or nothing and all. And write a nice manpage.
Thanks.
> --Scott
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