//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.
