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Re: Understanding clones and the file system

From: <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: 2001-08-02 16:41:56 CEST

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:

> Yes, it has a name: "/".
>
> It's unremovable, and Revision 0 is defined to contain nothing but
> this root directory.

The name of a node in the filesystem is granted by its parent
directory. Since the root node has no parent, it has no name. You
should find that when using the FS interface, you may refer to the
root node as either "/" or "".

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