* [9fans] silly Q @ 2009-08-13 10:00 ` cej 2009-08-13 14:00 ` Anthony Sorace 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: cej @ 2009-08-13 10:00 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans hi all, what is the reason why the dir structure of /usr/xxx does not follow that of / (according to namespace(4)), please? e.g., /386/bin, /386/lib, /386/include, /rc/bin, /rc/lib, but, /usr/glenda/bin/386, /usr/glenda/bin/mips, /usr/glenda/bin/rc. thanks, ++pac. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] silly Q 2009-08-13 10:00 ` [9fans] silly Q cej @ 2009-08-13 14:00 ` Anthony Sorace 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Anthony Sorace @ 2009-08-13 14:00 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs i certainly can't speak for the original designers, but i'd say aesthetics, mostly. putting bin before the arch type allows you to simply have fewer things in your home directory, which makes looking around easier. you can't really do that in the root. well, you could, binding, for example, /bin/386 over /bin, but it'd be a lot uglier; best to start with the empty /bin. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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