Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:35:46 -0400 | From | Dave Dodge <> | Subject | Re: [uClibc] Re: [OT] Re: The naming wars continue... |
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On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:15:15PM +0200, Måns Rullgård wrote: > Dave Dodge <dododge@dododge.net> writes: > > If I recall correctly, in the GoboLinux case [...] > > I believe "/bin" is a symlink to the bin directory in the main > > install prefix, but there are patches so that while "/bin" can be > > used for lookups it does not appear when you list "/". > > If there's one thing I detest, it is such hiding of files. The GUI in > MacOSX does such things too, even /tmp is hidden there.
I believe Gobo only has paths such as "/bin" for legacy compatibility (for example scripts starting with #!/bin/...). "/dev" is another case, since that isn't where Gobo puts its devices, but lots of things are going to assume they can use "/dev/zero" and "/dev/null".
> It's visible from a shell though.
Gobo actually does it in the kernel; whether that's better or worse depends on your point of view. There's a command-line tool "GoboHide" that provides a list of hidden things:
http://gobolinux.org/index.php?page=doc/articles/gobohide
I think all of the things hidden in a normal GoboLinux desktop are just legacy symlinks, and the real locations they point to are fully visible. Unlike MacOS, where the Finder ignores a lot of real directories and applications (I've been bitten there by "/tmp" myself). -Dave Dodge - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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