Schemes and Resources

An essential design choice made for Redox is to refer to resources using scheme-rooted paths. This gives Redox the ability to:

• Treat resources (files, devices, etc.) in a consistent manner
• Provide resource-specific behaviors with a common interface
• Allow management of names and namespaces to provide sandboxing and other security features
• Enable device drivers and other system resource management to communicate with each other using the same mechanisms available to user programs