Re: Patch: 2.5.62 devfs shrink

Miles Bader (miles@lsi.nec.co.jp)
28 Feb 2003 13:03:16 +0900


"Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com> writes:
> For example, should the directory names be singular or plural
> (/dev/loop or /dev/loops, /dev/disk or /dev/disks)? I would recommend
> signular because it is less English-centric.

I think singular is also far more common in existing [unix] practice.

-Miles

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