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Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:49:18 -0300
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From: "Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net> wrote:
>> enough. We say we deal with it with namespaces, but the bindings on a
>> freshly-installed Plan 9 box already make a much longer list than any $P=
ATH
>> I can imagine!
>
> but you don't have a LD_LIBRARY_PATH, a MANPTH, or any number of
> other search paths. Or symlinks. What is the total length of all
> of your paths plus symlinks?
>
> Also, is the size of the namespace list an issue?
>
>> I'm thinking over the idea that we're bumping up against the practical
>> limits of hierarchal file systems as a means for organising stuff, but I=
've
>> no idea what else might work.
>
> Google's approach is not to bother sorting things out. =C2=A0Use searches
> to find data you want. You can still do some sorting in things like
> gmail, but you don't need to.
>
> Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com
>
>



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