From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 24 18:31:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA00867 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 18:31:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA00853 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 18:31:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from auchentoshan.pdl.cs.cmu.edu (AUCHENTOSHAN.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.189.1]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id SAA16734 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 18:04:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost by auchentoshan.pdl.cs.cmu.edu id aa13679; 24 Mar 97 21:03 EST To: Terry Lambert cc: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@freebsd.org, port-i386@netbsd.org, darrenr@cyber.com.au Reply-to: keep.me.off.the.cc.line@of.this.thread From: "Chris G. Demetriou" Subject: Re: dump for MS-DOS partitions. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 24 Mar 1997 18:35:21 MST." <199703250135.SAA24334@phaeton.artisoft.com> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:03:01 -0500 Message-ID: <12331.859255381@auchentoshan.pdl.cs.cmu.edu> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Curious: why aren't they using it as a prefix instead of a suffix? It > would seem to make more sense as a prefix, for all sorts fo string > manipulation reasons, including argv[ 0] and _ replacement with 0 > for string split issues... > > Is it just that SVR4 does it with prefixes, and NIH rules? "Ask the former members of CSRG, not us." They're the ones who started using mount_*. cgd