From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 26 11:05:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA09976 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 11:05:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from cynic.portal.ca (root@cynic.portal.ca [204.174.36.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA09961 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 11:05:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ([[UNIX: localhost]]) by cynic.portal.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA28231; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 11:02:28 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: cynic.portal.ca: cjs owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 11:02:28 -0800 (PST) From: Curt Sampson To: Bill Sommerfeld cc: Jonathan Stone , Terry Lambert , perry@piermont.com, hackers@freebsd.org, NetBSD i386 Users Subject: Re: how to name fs specific programs In-Reply-To: <199703261426.OAA10034@orchard.east-arlington.ma.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > ...and he believes that the name > of the filesystem type should be defined purely by the name used in > the /sbin/fs directory, and not by anything inherent in the binaries > found inside /sbin/fs/foo/. In other words, one wants /sbin/nfs/mount, and /sbin/nfs/nfsmount is wrong because the word `nfs' appears in the files under /sbin/nfs? I can't see what advantage this offers besides aesthetic. Certainly the code doesn't care whether or not there's an _ or a / between the two %s strings in the printf format. It does seem to me to be a disadvantage in that if the file is ever encountered outside of the tree (say, you restore a single file from backup) it's very easy to get confused as to which mount program it is. cjs Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Through infinite myst, software reverberates Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 In code possess'd of invisible folly.