What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?

[Peter da Silva]

In article <7439 at bsu-cs.bsu.edu>, dhesi at bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
> How about reserving a leading ^ to mean root and temporarily accepting
> a leading / as a synonym for compatibility?

If you're going to change the name of root, how about '%'? '^' is already
in use on both /bin/sh and cshell.

Personally, I like named devices. Have the root be "%root" (Chosing a prefix
for file naming consistency). Then remote systems and devices become parallel
and you can play games with assigned names and symlinks to get the current
tree structure...

mount /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0 /usr -> ln -s %root/usr %c0d0s0

If the prefix bugs you, you can always go VMS:

				ln -s root:/usr c0d0s0:

(do you make it %/usr or %usr? Do you make it root:/usr or root:usr????)
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