Re: [9fans] rc scripts in /386/bin/aux

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>]

On Tue Aug  9 18:26:01 EDT 2011, lyndon@orthanc.ca wrote:
> I was surprised to stumble across a handful of rc scripts in
> /386/bin/aux.  Shouldn't this directory contain only 386 binary
> executables?  With the exception of the vmware script, none of these
> are specific to the 386 hardware platform in any way.
>
> Shouldn't we have an /rc/bin/aux directory and do a 'bind -a
> /rc/bin/aux /bin/aux' at the appropriate point during bootup?
>
> The candidates for relocation are cropmarks, grabit, hardcopy, and
> vmware.

unless something radical has happened recently, vmware only runs
on 386.

union directories are just one level.  so if aux is in /$cputype/bin,
then /rc/bin/aux will never be seen.  one could make /lib/namespace
more complicated to make /bin/aux a union directory as well, but that
sounds like a lot of work for no particular gain.

the tradition has been to copy scripts into /$cputype/bin/$somesubdir
for every arch.

- erik