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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: //host vs "mount point"
Message-ID: <9591@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 04:47:09 EST
Article-I.D.: mimsy.9591
Posted: Wed Dec  2 04:47:09 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 11:42:26 EST
References: <648@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1668@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <9446@tekecs.TEK.COM>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In another article whose referent has been deleted, Doug Gwyn gives
the following example:
>>		grep -i gwyn /n/ucbvax/n/monet/etc/passwd
>>	should work, but I doubt that
>>		grep -i gwyn //ucbvax//monet/etc/passwd
>>	would.

In article <9446@tekecs.TEK.COM> andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew
Klossner) writes:
>What you really want (at least in the environment I work in) is
>	grep -i gwyn //monet/etc/passwd
>All hosts reside in the same flat name space....

This one is too easy.  There are places that, for administrative
reasons (read `paranoia and/or pinheadedness' :-) ), *require*
such indirection.  (I am not claiming that UCB is one such.)

Incidentally, I think the Internet growth has shown why flat name
spaces are bad.
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