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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>
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Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon
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	"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]