So if the long-form flag is --directory, what is the short-form?
Did you say, -C?
Why yes, of course.
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@jasper @aral This primarily manifests on a shell level, though? I'm not sure what issues you're seeing on an OS level - there's plenty wrong the design of current-gen OSes, but it's already entirely possible to use standardized serialization formats today without requiring OS-level changes.
What specifically would need to change for this on the OS level?
@joepie91 @aral it's a shell, not rethinking of how an OS is supposed to work.. Let alone one which could replace the old paradigm..
Not that it doesn't contain some ideas or even code that could inform it..