Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!fts1!michael
From: michael@fts1.uucp (Michael Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: RFS vs. NFS
Message-ID: <1990Aug27.171504.12456@fts1.uucp>
Date: 27 Aug 90 17:15:04 GMT
References: <1940@cybaswan.UUCP> <:4C5FLA@xds13.ferranti.com> <1990Aug21.183615.8315@ico.isc.com>
Organization: Fountain Technical Services, Ottawa, ON
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In article <1990Aug21.183615.8315@ico.isc.com> rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
>> For a third choice, Intel's OpenNET software...
>> ...Instead a super-root, "//", is created. To access
>> files on a remote system, you access "//sysname/usr/bin..."...
>
>Ugh!  This isn't the first time I've seen this trick, but it's still a bad
>idea.  I wish all the clever developers who decided, "Yeah, we can just use
>a double / for that!" had been experienced with UNIX before they inflicted

  I much prefer /../sysname/usr/bin. I think this idea first appeared in 
edition 8. It prevents introducing new tokens. 
  I think getwd() (/bin/pwd) breaks for this, but I think that is it.
  If getwd() is in a shared library, then no problem fixing it.

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