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Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles)
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Thomas Bushnell, BSG |
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Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles) |
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24 Mar 2002 12:24:07 -0800 |
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Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome@real-time.com> writes:
> what's the logic behind the /com name?
We needed a place for mutable data that could be shared between
machines. The existing de facto standard was 4.4 BSD practice and
SunOS, neither of which had a place for this: they simply treated all
such data as unsharable. But the MIT AI lab *did* arrange to have it
shared. The most common examples at the time were user mailboxes.
The AI lab put it in a directory called "com", which stood for
"common". So, given that there was *no* standard place for such data,
and we were writing a standard, we decided to just adopt the AI lab's
name for GNU.
Thomas
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- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Mark Ellis, 2002/03/23
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Marcus Brinkmann, 2002/03/23
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom, 2002/03/24
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Richard Kreuter, 2002/03/24
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom, 2002/03/24
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Richard Kreuter, 2002/03/24
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles),
Thomas Bushnell, BSG <=
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Richard Kreuter, 2002/03/24
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/03/24
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Jeroen Dekkers, 2002/03/24
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Richard Kreuter, 2002/03/24
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/03/24
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Richard Kreuter, 2002/03/25
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/03/25
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom, 2002/03/26
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Jeroen Dekkers, 2002/03/25
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Richard Kreuter, 2002/03/25