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SubjectRe: Linux's future: //posix/ipc, //root and so on ?
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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.

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