From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 17 06:01:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BA3916A4CE for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 06:01:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from basement.kutulu.org (pcp03610121pcs.longhl01.md.comcast.net [68.49.239.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C10343F75 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 06:01:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kutulu@kutulu.org) Received: from wombat.localnet (wombat.localnet [192.168.69.3]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55A0AAA41; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:01:01 -0500 (EST) Received: by wombat.localnet (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D704AB855; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:00:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:00:20 -0500 From: Michael Edenfield To: Brent Jones , current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031117140020.GB15294@wombat.localnet> Mail-Followup-To: Brent Jones , current@freebsd.org References: <20031116051028.GA30485@roark.gnf.org> <3FB7A44C.1000002@mindspring.com> <1AAE62E6-18A5-11D8-B9A8-000393652EF2@santafe.edu> <20031117042151.GA60088@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ADZbWkCsHQ7r3kzd" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031117042151.GA60088@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Accept-Language: en X-PGP-Key: http://www.kutulu.org/pgp/kutulu.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1CE0 3C31 7013 D529 406D 37DC 09CC CD84 A46C 878F User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i Subject: Re: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:01:03 -0000 --ADZbWkCsHQ7r3kzd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Erik Trulsson [031116 23:21]: > 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= =20 > > the statically linked recovery things would be placed, in case the=20 > > shared libraries got hosed. The only things that needed to be=20 > > statically linked though, were system utilities, which is why people=20 > > probably started to associate the "s" with system, rather than static. > >=20 > > When this happened, you started to see the duplicates that used to=20 > > exist in /bin (or /usr/bin) and /sbin disappear. Since you still need= =20 > > a place to have statically linked recovery utilities, /rescue was=20 > > created. Now you see the duplicates in /bin (or /usr/bin) and /rescue= =20 > > instead. >=20 > 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. Also, wouldn't the names 'bin' and 'sbin' pre-date the existiance of dynamically linked binaries? AFAIK the primary difference between the two was the /bin was typically in a user's PATH and /sbin was not. --Mike --ADZbWkCsHQ7r3kzd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/uNR0CczNhKRsh48RAiebAJ9RDp/DKNcNAbmw8Boggsdc8KWE6ACdFJst H1MQJGoAmKa/GfzJzGlNSCk= =NxjX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ADZbWkCsHQ7r3kzd--