Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!tekecs!frip!andrew From: andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: //host vs "mount point" Message-ID: <9526@tekecs.TEK.COM> Date: 15 Dec 87 20:35:52 GMT References: <9398@tekecs.UUCP> <4300009@pcsbst.UUCP> Sender: nobody@tekecs.TEK.COM Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon Lines: 14 [] "I don't like the //a solution either. E.g. I have seen cpio producing names like //usr/.... We at PCS use mount point for our *transparent* network MUNIX/NET. These mount points are normally located within a superroot directory "/.." (which is not linked to "/")." This also breaks existing programs; a common way to see if a directory is the root of some file system is to see if "dir/.." is the same as "dir/." -=- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew) [UUCP] (andrew%tekecs.tek.com@relay.cs.net) [ARPA]