On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
> On 02-Feb-00 Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > If the VFS were going to be changed so radically, I'd much rather "//"
> > were reserved for something useful like URLs
>
> Since URLs don't really form a useful namespace, it seems like a bit of a
> waste. On the other hand, // seems like a both nasty and unnecessary namespace
> trick anyway.
>
> If you want to graft things into the namespace, what's wrong with mount?
Well first I think // is defined by POSIX as special anyways, second of
course to not break any (dumb) userspace app // would have "union mounted"
/ - i.e. //usr will still be /usr.
Richard.
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