From: dds@aueb.gr (Diomidis Spinellis)
Subject: [TUHS] User maintained programs in the Second Edition
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 11:37:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4d58ff50-dd59-35dc-6c9a-db9d6fd0feac@aueb.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201612230228.uBN2S8Mg000927@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>
On 23/12/2016 04:28, Doug McIlroy wrote:
>> Does anyone remember whether at the time these were installed in the
>> system-wide /bin directory,
>
> Those that I remember were in /usr/bin.
So was "/usr/bin" initially only for user-contributed binaries, or was
it from its inception a place for binaries that were not essential for
system boot and could not fit in the root partition?
The second reason is the one that is popularly documented e.g.:
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html
http://askubuntu.com/questions/130186/what-is-the-rationale-for-the-usr-directory
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-23 9:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-23 2:28 Doug McIlroy
2016-12-23 9:37 ` Diomidis Spinellis [this message]
2016-12-23 10:27 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-12-23 16:57 ` Clem Cole
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2016-12-22 7:27 Diomidis Spinellis
2016-12-22 9:22 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-12-22 9:28 ` SPC
2016-12-22 16:14 ` Dave Horsfall
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