From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 24 18:31:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA00904 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 18:31:07 -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 SAA00863 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 18:31:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id SAA16748 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 18:05:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA11475; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 17:59:35 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199703250159.RAA11475@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> X-Authentication-Warning: lestat.nas.nasa.gov: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Terry Lambert Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@freebsd.org, port-i386@netbsd.org, darrenr@cyber.com.au Subject: Re: dump for MS-DOS partitions. Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 17:59:25 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 24 Mar 1997 18:35:21 -0700 (MST) Terry Lambert wrote: > 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? ....there was already a (weak) precendent in BSD for suffixes... c.f. "newlfs". Of course, I don't recall checking what SVR4 did, either. It's not clear that it matters that much. Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939