From: Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] /bin vs /sbin
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 21:27:59 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b5ba60e5-c602-602b-db83-1bc64bba3db8@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200722011603.GA1536749@mit.edu>
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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.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-22 3:30 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
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 [this message]
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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