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On Oct 23,  7:43pm, Rick Hohensee wrote:
> Subject: Re: [9fans] R=E9f. : Tr: [9fans] Df command in
> >
> > PS: Rick, if you are interested in the bootloader stuff - just ask.
> > Parameter-passing _is_ doable even with cat bzImage >/dev/fd0 kind of=

> > approach. Documentation/i386/boot.txt  should contain enough details,=
 but
> > if you'll need help - let's take it to email.
> >
> >
>
> Sorry Maestros, but...
> There is no boot.txt in the Linux 2.2 or 2.4 source trees, and if
> Al's not also imagining his widely unknown bootloaderless general
> parameter passing method, 2 extra execve's in init/main.c is surely
> simpler.

We're way off topic here.  The only thing your bizarre suggestion
accomplishes is to make the names /bin, /sbin, /etc, etc. not appear
when someone types ls /.  You can, of course, make all the symbolic
links you think you need without changing any of the existing names,
change no code at all, in or out of the kernel, and have every effect
you want except that ls / shows a few old names.  Surely this one
feature isn't worth anything even the trivial change you're asking
for.

Furthermore, the plan 9 view is that ls's Unix behavior (not listing
names that start with .) is a bug kludging around a bug, and plan 9
fixes both.

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Tom Duff.  He appears to have J.C. Penney's taste in ties.

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