From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: <3D2D94BB.CFB25CCE@null.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: , <20020709110730.23FB2199B7@mail.cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: Liberating the filename (Was: [9fans] acme question + diffs forkfs, Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 14:57:31 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c95fb0e4-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote: > [Lucio De Re wrote:] > >Which reminds me, if we use > >fpath = (usr lucio fname) > >as a future description of a filepath, how do we designate the > >root? > >fpath = ('' usr lucio fname) > >perhaps? > No, they should be: > fpath = /usr/lucio/fname > as it has been. > No change is required for rc. Wrong! If we use lists instead of embedded / characters, as stipulated. The '' member (without quotes in the actual list member, which has 0 characters) would certainly be analogous to the current method of differentiating between relative and absolute paths. Is there some way of getting rid of absolute paths? What if first member "bin" or "dev" etc. were bound to "float" to the current dir.?