From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Aug 27 19:21:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 569001606F for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:21:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA08122; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 22:21:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 22:21:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199908280221.WAA08122@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Neil Zanella Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/13407: FHS compliancy In-Reply-To: References: <19990827110218.A40666@rucus.ru.ac.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > Required files for /bin: Looks like these folks still have their Linux blinders on... I do not believe there is any interest in moving FreeBSD's binaries around in this way. There is the thing called `PATH' which is by default set up in a correct way to find all of these commands. Any program which expects to find them in any specific directory is both unportable and erroneous. > + { cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, cp, date, dd, df, dmesg, echo, > ed, false, kill, ln, login, ls, mkdir, mknod, more, mount, > mv, ps, pwd, rm, rmdir, sed, setserial, sh, stty, su, sync, > true, umount, uname } Non-standard: setserial Not essential: cat, chgrp, false, login, more, sed, su, true, uname Appropriately hard-coded pathname: /bin/sh Belong in /sbin, not /bin: mount, umount > + { tar, gzip, gunzip (link to gzip), zcat (link to gzip) } None of these are, of course, necessary. Next thing you know they'll be demaning /bin/perl! -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message