From: Christian Grothaus <christian.grothaus@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] items in /bin with leading underscores
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 19:14:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <80633e2d041106111416e87945@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041106171557.GB25993@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
> In /bin there exist two similar entries of executables: One with and
> one without a leading underscore, e.g. /bin/touch and /bin/_touch.
>
> They seem to have different sizes.
>
> What is about it? How do they differ?
The ones with the leading underscores are created when you
replica/pull from the sources: when there's a new version of /bin/x,
replica/pull first executes 'mv /bin/x /bin/_x' so that you can switch
back to the old version in case there are problems with the new one.
Christian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-06 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-06 17:15 Heiko Dudzus
2004-11-06 19:14 ` Christian Grothaus [this message]
2004-11-06 19:20 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-11-06 19:30 ` Heiko Dudzus
2004-11-08 13:12 ` C H Forsyth
2004-11-09 14:00 ` Heiko Dudzus
2004-11-09 14:11 ` C H Forsyth
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