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SubjectRe: Linux's future: //posix/ipc, //root and so on ?
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> > Because everyone knows // is fine so everyone is really sloppy about 
> > combining paths together.
> >
> If there are will be warning such errors will be fixed eventually.

Sure. Oracle etc will leap into action and put out a fix so fast you can't see
their ftp site change.

> No :-) It's a feature. Some things are going REAL ugly without such things.

Given //ipc or freebsd, I think I'd pick freebsd. Thats how ugly the idea
is to me ok.

> > As it stands now if you forget to mount /proc odd things occur. It hasnt killed
> > anyone despite predictions that /proc being a real fs would cause doom gloom
> > and the end of the world made several years ago 8)
> >
> It's not killed anyone but it PRODUCED lots and lots of otherwise unneeded
> kludges.

All the /proc kludges have been over parsing, erratic file formats and poor
design decisions with layout. Not over mounting /proc itself. Its as simple
as putting the mount command in the right place. This is not rocket science.

Alan


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