Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Feb 2000 15:34:50 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Linux's future: //posix/ipc, //root and so on ? |
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On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote:
> I've just reread Linus's notes about IPC filesystem and to me idea about > metafiles "above" usual root looks great: //proc for /proc, //dev for devfs > and so on. No need to mount in every chroot environment, not need to manual > mount anything at all, easy change of root: just umount //root and mount > other thing there. And POSIX agrees that //root or //proc CAN be special > so all is correct. So just kernel changes are needed. Right ? Not quite:
> What do you think ?
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww... We don't need to implement Weirdnix - Dave Cutler had already done that. The whole Missed'em'V IPC thing is a completely fucked up API (OK, as the whole Missed'em'V API is) and we'ld better add a filesystem, and mount it during the boot like every honest UNIX should do with filesystems. But doing it via magic names? Yuk. _Please_, don't do that. Besides, that's where the hell gates are waiting - wanna bet how long will it take for some VMS-lover to "extend" your //root to //FOO$BAR$BAZ: "functionality"?
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