From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: David Arnold <davida@pobox.com>
Cc: TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] /bin vs /sbin
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 21:33:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfoQ2tqrVAY6onKqzQjNjeEZU_0g=DSZ7f4tZYs16k5vMA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <305889B3-25B5-4C28-BB84-57470D845BBF@pobox.com>
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On Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 4:52 PM David Arnold <davida@pobox.com> wrote:
> > On 22 Jul 2020, at 04:15, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
> <…>
>
> > The root disks date from a time before Linux had shared libraries, I
> thought,
>
> IIRC, Linux had two different shared library implementations? I haven’t
> looked, and don’t remember the details, but it might have been linked to
> the switch from a.out to ELF for executables? IIRC, the pre-ELF shared
> libs were a hack on the a.out executable format.
>
Yes. Those were the SunOS like ones, but with weird address location quirks.
Warner
Not sure where that fits into the /etc vs. /sbin timeline. ISTR Linux was
> somewhat inclined away from the BSD way of doing things (in favour of
> Solaris/SVR4).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-22 3:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-21 17:55 Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-07-21 18:15 ` Warner Losh
2020-07-21 22:42 ` David Arnold
2020-07-22 3:33 ` Warner Losh [this message]
2020-07-21 18:22 ` arnold
2020-07-21 18:33 ` Warner Losh
2020-07-21 18:43 ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-22 1:16 ` tytso
2020-07-22 3:27 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-07-22 3:35 ` Warner Losh
2021-01-27 5:56 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-01-27 19:06 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-01-27 22:22 ` Warner Losh
2021-01-27 22:35 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-01-28 5:24 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-07-22 1:44 ` Dan Cross
2020-07-22 2:17 ` Jon Forrest
2020-07-22 2:20 ` Adam Thornton
2020-07-22 13:30 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-22 13:43 ` Richard Salz
2020-07-22 2:27 ` Kurt H Maier
2020-07-21 19:24 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-22 13:39 ` Clem Cole
2021-01-29 23:50 ` Chris Hanson
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