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

Tue May 30 22:27:46 AEST 1989

In article <10332 at smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> I don't think there should be a namesystem root.  I recently sent DMR some
> notes about a new concept that would permit us to get rid of namesystem root,
> among other things.  I don't know whether anything will come of it..

AmigaDOS doesn't have a namesystem root. It's annoying... one of these
days I'm gonna implement a ROOT: handler and get the best of both worlds.
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