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- From: pyramid!utzoo!henry (Henry Spencer)
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 86 04:07:24 CDT
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- > If the filesystem were really transparent, the designers of /proc would
- > not have had to encode process ID's in ASCII digits, they could have
- > directly used the binary representation.
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- This is rather a red herring, since they wouldn't have done this even if
- it had been trivially possible. The ASCII representation is a whole lot
- more useful for human beings, and isn't a significant nuisance to programs.
- The extra code needed to do it isn't much (yes, I have read it).
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- > It's for these reasons that I feel that a conservative UNIX user should
- > restrict themselves to certain "reasonable" filename conventions...
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- Agreed, but that is not the topic of the discussion. Standards must address
- requirements other than those of conservative human users. It is a serious
- mistake for a standard to attempt to legislate morality.
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- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry
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- Volume-Number: Volume 7, Number 73
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