Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?
Keywords: GNU OS features kernel fun!
Message-ID: <4331@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 27 May 89 03:46:26 GMT
References: <106326@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <4315@ficc.uu.net> <338@arc.UUCP> <7439@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <7439@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>, dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
> How about reserving a leading ^ to mean root and temporarily accepting
> a leading / as a synonym for compatibility?

If you're going to change the name of root, how about '%'? '^' is already
in use on both /bin/sh and cshell.

Personally, I like named devices. Have the root be "%root" (Chosing a prefix
for file naming consistency). Then remote systems and devices become parallel
and you can play games with assigned names and symlinks to get the current
tree structure...

mount /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0 /usr -> ln -s %root/usr %c0d0s0

If the prefix bugs you, you can always go VMS:

				ln -s root:/usr c0d0s0:

(do you make it %/usr or %usr? Do you make it root:/usr or root:usr????)
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