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* Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> [030409 16:48] wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > > 
> > > And what kind of path seperator is '.'?
> > 
> > Exactly.  What you're describing would be better implemented as a
> > pseudo-fs layer.  In fact, that would remove the need for separate j*
> > utilities. 
> 
> I thought we were trying to get away from synthetic file systems with
> terrible security properties.  In fact, we specifically toasted procfs
> because it behaved so badly; kernfs went down the tubes because the
> semantic match was very poor, and sysctl is in.

Whatever, path components should be path components.