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- From: Michael Smith <miff@apanix.apana.org.au>
- Subject: Tree structure (was Mintos, they go crunch in your mouth 8)
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 15:19:00 -17634834 (DST)
- In-Reply-To: <9401101735.AA08624@hpbeo79.bbn.hp.com> from "Claus Brod" at Jan 10, 94 06:35:10 pm
-
- >
- >> However, I'd propose to go the 4.4BSD way (i.e., the tree structure that
- >> BSDs younger than 4.3BSD-Reno use), because the INIT package is a lot
- >> like BSD.
- >
- >Does BSD 4.4 have a /var directory and other such stuff? Since BSD
- >is pretty much outdated these days, I'd prefer to go the V.4 way.
- >If we need BSD compatibility, most of it can be done using links.
- >But I may be totally wrong here.
-
- Ummm, I wouldn't describe BSD as outdated - SVr4 is the result of
- AT&T incorporating much of BSD into r3... And OSF/1 can be seen to be
- a BSD derivative in many ways.
-
- Yes, BSD does use /var (spool, adm, etc), possibly one of the r4isms
- we would want is /proc, and perhaps /shmfs. I can't say I'm at all
- keen on their pipefs stuff though, that makes things pretty painful
- because you have to make sure that named pipes are created there to
- work at all.
-
- >Anyway, what's the consensus concerning the separate mailing list
- >now?
-
- _no_!
-
- >Claus Brod, MDD, HP Boeblingen Magic is real unless declared integer.
-
- --
- # mike smith : miff@apanix.apana.org.au - Silicon grease monkey #
- # "The question 'why are the fundamental laws of nature mathematical' #
- # then invites the trivial response 'because we define as fundamental #
- # those laws which are mathematical'". Paul Davies, _The_Mind_of_God_. #
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