> I know that some systems make the Unix naming a little more palatable by
> reserving /net/hostname/filesystem for referring uniformly to network files,
> but that's really no cleaner than // in that it makes /net a special piece
> of syntax. Personally, I always found the //nodename prefix a reasonably
> elegant solution.
The obvious solution, of course (and in fact the one amd uses) is not to
make /net special syntax, but mount a special filesystem there - just like
/proc.
MfG Kai