On 19 October 2014 16:36, Charles Forsyth wrote: > Only a few have any sort of global > significance, and even that's probably a mistake. > What I really meant was that few programs care about Dir.type since most don't care what serves the names as long as they behave as expected. Relatively few programs use the # names directly in bind(2) calls: it's more common to set up a name space and then invoke a program.