On Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 9:30 PM Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote: > On 7/21/20 7:16 PM, tytso@mit.edu wrote: > > Yeah, that's definitely not right. /sbin had been around for > > "essential system binaries" long before Linux, and Linux took it > > from there. > > I'm sorry, I think there has been a misunderstanding. I did not mean to > imply that Linux influenced the larger Unix community with /sbin. > Rather the other way around, that that's the time that Linux had been > influenced about /sbin. > > > You can see this from the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (earlier > > named fsstnd, which specified /sbin as "essential system binaries"). > > I should revisit that, particularly in light of an older name and use. > > > SunOS used that nomenclature and the GNU tools all used /sbin for > > that purpose. > > Did Solaris follow in SunOS's foot steps? Or did Solaris do something > different? > > > The other thing I'd again urge is that you not take HJ Lu's boot/root > > disks as being influencial after early 1992. > > Okay. I naively thought that HJ Lu's boot/root was falling out of favor > in '93, a year later. Thank you for clarifying Warner. > I think it was Ted clarifying me :) Warner > > -- > Grant. . . . > unix || die > >