File Sys Hierarchies

[Trip Martin]

In article <20140 at adm.BRL.MIL> rbj at dsys.ncsl.nist.gov (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>Another annoying thing is that the superuser's home directory is `/'.
>This make it difficult to have a private bin directory and use the
>same .cshrc and .login scripts as my user account.

Is there any good reason to leave root's home directory as "/"?  Or
is this just another convention that's been around so long that no one's
bothered to change it?

Trip Martin  KA2LIV       night at pawl.rpi.edu
Finite state machinist    night at uruguay.acm.rpi.edu