From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tfb@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw) Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 13:35:58 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] Understanding the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin Split In-Reply-To: <201202010926.q119QdMm007019@freefriends.org> References: <201202010926.q119QdMm007019@freefriends.org> Message-ID: On 1 Feb 2012, at 09:26, arnold at skeeve.com wrote: > The Berkeley guys did NOT invent shared libraries. Shared libraries as > we know them came originally from Sun, on SunOS 4.x for sure, possibly > on SunOS 3.x. (Larry?) Many commercial vendors adopted the design (Ultrix, > I think, and maybe others) and finally around 4.4 they found their way into > "pure" BSD. 4. 3 may have had them but not in any version we had, so I'd guess not in a major release, anyway.