From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Thu Jul 21 07:20:59 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 517D7B9EBFD for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 07:20:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from russ.haley@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vk0-x230.google.com (mail-vk0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c05::230]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0BD00179A; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 07:20:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from russ.haley@gmail.com) Received: by mail-vk0-x230.google.com with SMTP id n129so56146669vke.3; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 00:20:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=ekQYXQ0vankL0sPuvv1SESrUBpDqRGhqQo8YaQodHfg=; b=iF/WiT9G8dCO/vhHaC0oZ3MBX3SpSlHmq4BSNy7kqMB8XTibS9OGqOgkEffd/YqFXg bs7qLUNgGxBqFzomPysw7DtBX7byxZrNm5Daz88CupjdLfKCCno9Y4zxtc9A9zj/jjAO K9ofXmOMbcJg4dIlhHf9ugmuin3VeAjvESCSt4jZOm5+aCp/MPBZYE0SnBuWVLp2wSwp CSUf2OCqVweYzjQdtVqDXSwDWdMvaWTZ17ESffwYTYJPjOYuIUWEOCwzGZz/H40cyzf4 mn+Kaet6MIHY+T679w5AHfHpxC/cYX+0zAEHww9Sba/Hp1HbUC8GeAMocFwjFQNCrnzK 2rZA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=ekQYXQ0vankL0sPuvv1SESrUBpDqRGhqQo8YaQodHfg=; b=OO3ngnT0eqZtRexRluUw97QT8fdUU1xUIxrp/lydyw9TrZmfJQBzGTCP8SgrlYA577 Nn/hhJUPHCP2LOSKIGeT0oPU77g43T9wD7lwiRV7NTciDBUktOy4oJx0ewTexOTlorjN 1U5750z3jYZs2CR1tM5VTY/9GlQWoLxtjZNLRC8LGJSzjuFya7rves1aiKtkWo8h7wrv rIZlvArivNzsLOitOTx081wN7E3EjD0pC/2Hi/LdB/7DqAsOf9kabCKJjuhKv+ro/e6O d+YUOdUpW6rA1Zk+L5ouSI9AWHLSQ8wdBOU3uE3jLfRQ4nxuGYBCt7E0ph4wywG397Nq 2hTQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tKNcKlbBmtzFeTaax0kzHfK8wXhriA9/XlN1L2VT232AigGcEQeyZ4jX8nW3k1BTANvlDdv14PnrKkfxw== X-Received: by 10.159.32.66 with SMTP id 60mr26554355uam.100.1469085658097; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 00:20:58 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.31.54.75 with HTTP; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 00:20:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9F4673FD-828B-4809-911B-00EDD601C425@dsl-only.net> References: <79BCA7CB-4D6A-45AF-8432-FD7F8577B42F@dsl-only.net> <20160721030322.GL65494@FreeBSD.org> <9F4673FD-828B-4809-911B-00EDD601C425@dsl-only.net> From: Russell Haley Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 01:20:57 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD user home directory To: Mark Millard Cc: Glen Barber , freebsd-arm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 07:20:59 -0000 On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 12:59 AM, Mark Millard wrote: > On 2016-Jul-20, at 8:03 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 07:54:27PM -0700, Mark Millard wrote: >>> Looking at my armv6 and amd64 11.0's (long in use, originally >>> -CURRENT, now -STABLE, maintained via source updates): >>> >>> amd64 and armv6 (rpi2) both have real /usr/home directories. >>> >>> armv6 (and rpi2) has no /home path established at all, not even >>> as a symbolic link to elsewhere. >>> >>> amd64 has /home -> usr/home via a symbolic link. I think Mark is indicating what first caught my eye: the user is created in a real /home directory. The new symbolic link will create a /usr/home reference, but my experience historically (and unfortunately anecdotally at this time) has been the real directory is /usr/home. I can see that what Glen did is consistent with the pw(8) command he quoted earlier so his solution is possibly "more correct"? The real question though is does it make any difference (I'm not an expert on linking)? And if it does, should all planned tier 1 platforms (i.e. x86,amd64 and aarch64) be checked/corrected for consistency? Russ