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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Pathname Semantics with //
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 17:49:37 -0700
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To: David Dabbs <david@dabbs.net>
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David Dabbs wrote:

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>
>>Use of : in addition to / is a bad idea, see The Hideous Name by Rob
>>Pike for why.
>>
>>Hans
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>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.