Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:00:20 -0500 From: Michael Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org> To: Brent Jones <brent@santafe.edu>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked Message-ID: <20031117140020.GB15294@wombat.localnet> In-Reply-To: <20031117042151.GA60088@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <20031116051028.GA30485@roark.gnf.org> <B40D24A3-1843-11D8-ACF8-00039310484E@zigweid.net> <3FB7A44C.1000002@mindspring.com> <1AAE62E6-18A5-11D8-B9A8-000393652EF2@santafe.edu> <20031117042151.GA60088@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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--ADZbWkCsHQ7r3kzd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> [031116 23:21]: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 07:24:00PM -0700, Brent Jones wrote: > > This is just a case of OS evolution. /sbin used to be the place where= =20 > > the statically linked recovery things would be placed, in case the=20 > > shared libraries got hosed. The only things that needed to be=20 > > statically linked though, were system utilities, which is why people=20 > > probably started to associate the "s" with system, rather than static. > >=20 > > When this happened, you started to see the duplicates that used to=20 > > exist in /bin (or /usr/bin) and /sbin disappear. Since you still need= =20 > > a place to have statically linked recovery utilities, /rescue was=20 > > created. Now you see the duplicates in /bin (or /usr/bin) and /rescue= =20 > > instead. >=20 > Do you have any references for this? Every single place that I can > find explains /sbin as "system binaries". I have also never heard of > there ever being duplicates in /bin of the files in /sbin. Also, wouldn't the names 'bin' and 'sbin' pre-date the existiance of dynamically linked binaries? AFAIK the primary difference between the two was the /bin was typically in a user's PATH and /sbin was not. --Mike --ADZbWkCsHQ7r3kzd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/uNR0CczNhKRsh48RAiebAJ9RDp/DKNcNAbmw8Boggsdc8KWE6ACdFJst H1MQJGoAmKa/GfzJzGlNSCk= =NxjX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ADZbWkCsHQ7r3kzd--
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