Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:24:29 +0000 From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> To: ertr1013@student.uu.se Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked Message-ID: <E1ALgYX-00046g-00@chiark.greenend.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20031117042151.GA60088@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <20031116051028.GA30485@roark.gnf.org> <B40D24A3-1843-11D8-ACF8-00039310484E@zigweid.net> <3FB7A44C.1000002@mindspring.com> <1AAE62E6-18A5-11D8-B9A8-000393652EF2@santafe.edu> <1AAE62E6-18A5-11D8-B9A8-000393652EF2@santafe.edu>
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Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote: >On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 07:24:00PM -0700, Brent Jones wrote: >> >> This is just a case of OS evolution. /sbin used to be the place where >> the statically linked recovery things would be placed, in case the >> shared libraries got hosed. The only things that needed to be >> statically linked though, were system utilities, which is why people >> probably started to associate the "s" with system, rather than static. > >Do you have any references for this? Every single place that I can >find explains /sbin as "system binaries". I have also never heard of >there ever being duplicates in /bin of the files in /sbin. That's the way things work in Solaris. It's more a difference between System V and BSD, rather than one scheme evolving into another. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <dot@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ ARDNAMURCHAN POINT TO CAPE WRATH INCLUDING THE OUTER HEBRIDES: WEST 5 OR 6 BACKING SOUTH 4 OR 5, VEERING SOUTHWEST LATER, AND INCREASING 6 LATER IN THE SOUTH. OCCASIONAL RAIN. MODERATE OR GOOD. MODERATE OR ROUGH, OCCASIONALLY SLIGHT IN SHELTERED EASTERN WATERS.
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