Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 19:27:34 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: peter@taronga.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's in a name Message-ID: <936.806984854@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Jul 1995 20:28:16 CDT." <199507290128.UAA13450@bonkers.taronga.com>
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> It's good to have a single namespace for all objects visible to the system. > > This means that one way or another everything has to map into the filesystem, > since most objects on the system are files. I don't agree. Oh, sure, I agree that most most objects are files, certainly, but they're only one kind of object and I object to forcing everything into one naming model just because they're popular objects. There are a number of "global objects" hanging around your modern UN*X system that really don't want to be files and need to be substantially twisted into weird shapes in order to get them to fit. Give me classes, objects and a registry mechanism (for which a hierarchical organization method would be only *one* of possibly many available) any day.. And no, I never said I wanted NT. Stop putting dirty words in my mouth.. :-) Jordan
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