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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>
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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.
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