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Date:      Wed, 11 Sep 1996 08:35:31 +0900 (JST)
From:      Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: namei performance (was Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux 96 (my impressions))
Message-ID:  <Pine.SV4.3.93.960911083019.9531A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <199609101734.KAA03032@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > I like the pre-parsing of the pathname into components idea for all these
> > reasons.  Freeing the code from delimiter processing is definitely a win.
> 
> I can't take credit; there's a lot of prior art for doing things this
> way.  Microsfot does things this way in Win95 and NT, and they were not
> the first to do it (path cannonization).

Microsoft, Japan Inc., and other successful organizations aren't caught up
with the originality of ideas, neither should we.

Anyway, I didn't mean to imply credit for the prior art, just for the idea
of using it in this case.  8-) 8-)

Regards,


Mike Hancock




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