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Subject: Re: A bit of trivia: what does usr stand for?
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On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Doug White wrote:

> I think it was Kerningham that said that given the chance to do it all
> over, he would have called it create(2).

And there you have it.  The earliest example of bikeshedding recorded in
the development of unix.

Later,
Jason