Re: [9fans] Re: [sources] 20070410: % cat

["Anthony Sorace" <anothy@gmail.com>]

//To start with, Plan 9 can handle as many things in the
//root as you like.  It is not constrained by the size
//of an rk05 or the time to fsck the root partition.

Of course; as I said, it's largely an aesthetic decision. But I do
believe it has an impact on *people* reading /, rather than programs
reading it. And /sys/lib feels like a very natural fit for exactly
this sort of information.

Yes, /cfg is provably shorter to type than /sys/lib/sysconfig... but
you really believe that matters here? I don't dispute the impact of
length on use generally, but this is seldom-changing config
information. Is it really true that nothing/nobody ever used sysconfig
(contrary to the cpurc man page)?

Personally, i think the argument of "so we don't have to edit
cpurc/termrc" is vacuous. They change infrequently enough, and in
small enough ways each time, that merging changes is simple. I think
the fear (as Russ pointed to elsewhere) of moving towards init.d is
much more legitimate.