From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yiannis Mavroukakis Subject: Re: Interview with Hans on KernelTrap Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:11:21 +0100 Message-ID: <43282F89.4020907@darthvader.us> References: <878xy0sy0d.fsf@evinrude.uhoreg.ca> <432820E8.9080201@st-andrews.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <432820E8.9080201@st-andrews.ac.uk> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Peter Foldiak wrote: > Hans, in the interview you give the example: > > cat /home/reiser/mp3s/..../childcat > /dev/dsp > > to illustrate concatenation. > [...] > > The convention (I think also approved(suggested?) by Linus at some > point) could be that where you say > > /home/reiser/mp3s > > you get a the file (or concatenation, if the directory has no "file" > content itself), but when you say > > /home/reiser/mp3s/ > > (with the trailing "/"), you get the directory. > If cool is the first perceived benefit, then why do it ? Besides, it's quite easy through force of habit or mistype to add a '/' ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________