From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: David Dabbs <david@dabbs.net>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
'ReiserFS List' <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Pathname Semantics with //
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 17:49:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4140FA21.50101@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040909191641.A33B315E8B@mail03.powweb.com>
David Dabbs wrote:
>
>
>>Use of : in addition to / is a bad idea, see The Hideous Name by Rob
>>Pike for why.
>>
>>Hans
>>
>>
>>
>
>I've read The Hideous Name, and I think you're taking Pike out of context.
>He wrote that document when device files were still only a part of a
>research version of UNIX. His main point is that programs should not be
>saddled with understanding physical devices when constructing filenames.
>
No, it was more than that. It was that hierarchy requires only one
delimiter.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-10 0:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-09 10:41 [RFC] Pathname Semantics with // David Dabbs
2004-09-08 16:13 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-09 16:36 ` Peter Foldiak
2004-09-09 19:21 ` David Dabbs
2004-09-10 0:49 ` Hans Reiser [this message]
2004-09-10 3:06 ` David Dabbs
2004-09-10 5:40 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-09 21:51 ` David Dabbs
2004-09-09 6:10 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-09 17:33 ` Christian Mayrhuber
2004-09-09 20:17 ` David Dabbs
2004-09-09 20:41 ` Andreas Dilger
2004-09-10 9:11 ` Markus Törnqvist
2004-09-10 10:37 ` Christian Mayrhuber
2004-09-09 23:03 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-09-10 1:37 ` David Dabbs
2004-09-10 9:53 ` [SPAM] " Jamie Lokier
2004-09-10 17:11 ` David Dabbs
2004-09-10 11:47 ` Christian Mayrhuber
2004-09-10 11:06 ` Christian Mayrhuber
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-10 17:49 David Dabbs
2004-09-09 18:03 ` Hans Reiser
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