On Saturday 21 November 2009 10:35:31 am Eliot Miranda wrote:
> Even though the Windows drive letters do map to
> different file systems they are still a single namespace.
In Windows, drive letters are indexes into a volume table - more like 
partition names in Unix (/dev/sda1, /dev/sdb2 etc) or in Grub ( (hd0,1), 
(hd1,2), ...). They are not treated as part of a namespace.

Unix has one and only one index (root) named "" (zero length symbol).

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