enough. We say we deal with it with namespaces, but the bindings on a freshly-installed Plan 9 box already make a much longer list than any $PATH I can imagine!
but you don't have a LD_LIBRARY_PATH, a MANPTH, or any number of other search paths. Or symlinks. What is the total length of all of your paths plus symlinks?
Also, is the size of the namespace list an issue?
I'm thinking over the idea that we're bumping up against the practical limits of hierarchal file systems as a means for organising stuff, but I've no idea what else might work.
Google's approach is not to bother sorting things out. Use searches to find data you want. You can still do some sorting in things like gmail, but you don't need to. Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com
