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Date:      Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:54:35 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Source tree hierarchy
Message-ID:  <20041130165434.GD2610@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20041130153247.GB29674@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
References:  <20041130153247.GB29674@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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On 2004-11-30 15:32, Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> wrote:
>
> Why are there sometimes 2 levels of the same directory name, one beneath the
> other?
>
> Like sys and i386, for example?

They are different things:

/usr/src/sys		Kernel sources (entire source tree).

/usr/src/sys/sys	Kernel header files.  These are installed as
			/usr/include/sys/* by the installation process.



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