Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles)

[Kenneth Stailey]

Some comments.

"Jeroen Dekkers" <jeroen@dekkers.cx> writes:

> 6.2  GNU
> 
> This is the annex for the GNU operating system.
> 
> The GNU system is special compared to other UNIX-like operating
> systems in the way it treats the filesystem namespace. The filesystem
> namespace is very flexible, you can do anything with it what you
> want. [...]

Are you sure you want to say this?  Seems that other UNIX-derived
filesystems can be configured any way you like (given time and effort)
and the FHS is supposed to put a stop to that.

"Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb@becket.net> writes:

> dmesg is pointless; it should be required where it makes sense.  For
> us, it mostly doesn't.  (Even on Linux, it really doesn't make sense;
> it's a duplication of syslog.)

Even on BSD it is a duplication of syslog too, but you don't always
have syslog.  What about single-user-mode?  Seems to me that it's a
recovery tool.


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