What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <4346 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>AmigaDOS doesn't have a namesystem root. It's annoying...

I'm not familiar with AmigaDOS, but the goal is not just to get rid of
a root for the namesystem, it's to make such a root unnecessary.
(My scheme actually provides, as a special case, a way to obtain local
top-level handles, but there is no inherent global hierarchy.)