Re: Firefox and naming issues

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 08:11:49 +0000 (UTC), Martijn van Buul
<martijnb%atlas.ipv6.stack.nl@localhost> wrote:

> There's a 'cp' in /bin, and there's
>    a 'cp' in /usr/pkg/emul/linux/bin. Are you suggesting we rename /bin/cp
>    to /bin/cp-native and /usr/pkg/emul/linux/bin/cp to 
>    ../cp-look-zafer-its-a-linux-binary, breaking *everything* that just calls
>    'cp' ? *OFCOURSE* they have the same name, and *OFCOURSE* they end up
>    the same in the output of /bin/ps. 

Given how many problems I have because of name collisions in Linux
emulation, maybe we should think about it a bit.

                --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb