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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?
Keywords: OS features kernel filesystem root
Message-ID: <10343@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 31 May 89 23:03:05 GMT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <4346@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>AmigaDOS doesn't have a namesystem root. It's annoying...

I'm not familiar with AmigaDOS, but the goal is not just to get rid of
a root for the namesystem, it's to make such a root unnecessary.
(My scheme actually provides, as a special case, a way to obtain local
top-level handles, but there is no inherent global hierarchy.)