Tree structure (was Mintos, they go crunch in your mouth 8)

[Michael Smith <miff@apanix.apana.org.au>]

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>> However, I'd propose to go the 4.4BSD way (i.e., the tree structure that
>> BSDs younger than 4.3BSD-Reno use), because the INIT package is a lot
>> like BSD.
>
>Does BSD 4.4 have a /var directory and other such stuff? Since BSD
>is pretty much outdated these days, I'd prefer to go the V.4 way.
>If we need BSD compatibility, most of it can be done using links.
>But I may be totally wrong here.

Ummm, I wouldn't describe BSD as outdated - SVr4 is the result of
AT&T incorporating much of BSD into r3... And OSF/1 can be seen to be
a BSD derivative in many ways.

Yes, BSD does use /var (spool, adm, etc), possibly one of the r4isms 
we would want is /proc, and perhaps /shmfs.  I can't say I'm at all
keen on their pipefs stuff though, that makes things pretty painful
because you have to make sure that named pipes are created there to
work at all.

>Anyway, what's the consensus concerning the separate mailing list
>now?

_no_!

>Claus Brod, MDD, HP Boeblingen      Magic is real unless declared integer.

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