Re: using "core" as directory name

Joseph Fouche (jfouche@preferred.COM)
Wed, 26 Jul 1995 20:22:25 -0500 (GMT-0500)


On Tue, 25 Jul 1995, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:

> >> probably not wrong. It seems extremely unwise to name anything
> >> important "core", if only because people write scripts that find and

> In order to follow the theory of least-surprise, I'd say that especially
> in a development environment as the kernel, you shouldn't have
> files/directories being part of the source tree that are named "core".

I'll third that motion.

Linus, how about "kcore" or "base" in the next release?
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