16 Sep
2015
16 Sep
'15
10:11 p.m.
Warren Toomey scripsit:
There's a hierarchy of directories and files
beginning at the tree root /.
There's a hierarchy of processes rooted with init. But there's no hierarchy
of users, so why the moniker "root"?
Either because / was root's home directory (until /root was invented),
or because only root could typically write /. If anybody remembers otherwise,
they are not talking.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan(a)ccil.org
Andrew Watt on Microsoft: Never in the field of human computing has so
much been paid by so many to so few! (pace Winston Churchill)