On Fri, 10 May 2002, Padraig Brady wrote:
> Well 1 app in *Step.
no, all *Step GUI apps.
> Did the command line tools treat the
> "directories" like the GUI did?
the command line tools treated it like an ordinary unix fs.
> The big advantage of doing it in the OS is consistency, rather than
> every userspace app being inconsistent or duplicating the logic to
> be consistent with each other.
well "consistency" is not a good enough argument to justify throwing
stuff into the kernel.
> Padraig.
--paulj
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