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From: bob@monster.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: A question...
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Date: 29 Apr 89 22:00:55 GMT
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In-reply-to: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU's message of 29 Apr 89 18:13:51 GMT

In article <8835@polya.Stanford.EDU> ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer) writes:
   0.9 file system structure is considerably different than that in
   0.8; ... A typical / will contain, besides the standard Unix /usr,
   /tmp/, /etc, etc:
     ...
     /me, /joe, etc  (User accounts)

Hmmm... What happens when Edward Theodore Cravitz walks up with his
optical disk containing his home directory named with his initials?
Will it get mounted under / too?  What happens to that other /etc
that's been lying around there, collecting dust for lo these many
years?  Which /etc will you believe?  What happens if Eddie doesn't
happen to have a ~/passwd?  What if he does?

And what about Naomi?