Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux's future: //posix/ipc, //root and so on ? | Date | Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:11:27 -0500 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <ADoh0luu76@khim.sch57.msk.ru>, "Khimenko Victor" writes: +----- | That is: in LOTS of current Linux systems some vital programs rely on fact | that currently "//"=="/". If we want EVER move to make "//" special IMHO | it's better to add kernel warning NOW. Perhaps configurable so it can be | disabled (not in compile time, but in run-time). This way at least EACH AND | EVERY Linux vendor will be aware about problem. What do you think ? +--->8
I think developers won't love you for making Linux "gratuitously" incompatible with other *ix systems.
SVR3 RFS used /.. as the superroot; RFS being pretty much dead, I'd consider it available for other uses.
-- brandon s. allbery os/2,linux,solaris,perl allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator kthkrb,heimdal,gnome,rt allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering kf8nh We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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