Re: Directories traversal (was Re: the deadly hypercube of death, or: handling permissions)

[Marcus Brinkmann]

At Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:33:39 +0200,
Pierre THIERRY <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Scribit Bas Wijnen dies 28/04/2006 hora 12:12:
> > It's the other way.  /etc and /var don't exist, but we generate them
> > for POSIX applications (so they see them).  Different POSIX
> > applications may very well see different contents of the same
> > directory though.  Only for POSIX programs which spawned each other
> > must the tree be consistent.
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> That's interesting. I can only fear that it could be a step too large, a
> too big paradigm shift, for some users...
> 
> But maybe if it is very well explained, that won't be a problem.

Actually, if you talk about most users, then you can be lucky if that
set contains people who know what a directory is and actually use it
to organize their files.

I know people who just dump their files into whatever directory is
offered to them in the save dialog.

So, I think that most people will only ever care about their home
directory at most, and not be able to make heads and tails of /etc and
/var, _nor_ _want_ _to_ (because their interest is not in computers).

Now, yeah, there will be bone-headed unix gurus who will panic.  We
will ease their way in by having this fancy POSIX compatibility layer
where everything looks like Unix, and then lure them into the new
world by all the extra cool stuff :)

Thanks,
Marcus