... Or we could use a smiley: ;-) That way typing paths in ReiserFS would make people feel happy. (I'm joking) [martin] The question is if that tradition is really so important in this context. Will that file name be typed more often than, say, '.xsession-errors' or '.nautilus-metafile.xml'? [/martin] Absolutely! Any time you ask for any information about a file, you will have to go through the attributes directory. Permissions, uid, MIME, etc. This is why it seems to me to be an important decision... because it will become indelibly associated with ReiserFS. If it looks ugly, then people will say that ReiserFS is ugly. And it needs to be fairly easy to type, because it is typed often. [alexander] Unfortunately a hyphen by itself confuses many programs, like "cd". "cd -" doesn't work. [/alexander] But it is a perfectly valid file name. People should be in the habit of putting paths in quotes... Too many programmers forget quoting paths in programs, which then break when you use file names with spaces. Anyway, I still vote for "-" on aesthetic grounds.
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