Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 22:21:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Neil Zanella <nzanella@math.mun.ca> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/13407: FHS compliancy Message-ID: <199908280221.WAA08122@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9908272300010.553-100000@fermat.math.mun.ca> References: <19990827110218.A40666@rucus.ru.ac.za> <Pine.BSF.4.01.9908272300010.553-100000@fermat.math.mun.ca>
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<<On Fri, 27 Aug 1999 23:01:20 -0230 (NDT), Neil Zanella <nzanella@math.mun.ca> said:
> Required files for /bin:
Looks like these folks still have their Linux blinders on...
I do not believe there is any interest in moving FreeBSD's binaries
around in this way. There is the thing called `PATH' which is by
default set up in a correct way to find all of these commands. Any
program which expects to find them in any specific directory is both
unportable and erroneous.
> + { cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, cp, date, dd, df, dmesg, echo,
> ed, false, kill, ln, login, ls, mkdir, mknod, more, mount,
> mv, ps, pwd, rm, rmdir, sed, setserial, sh, stty, su, sync,
> true, umount, uname }
Non-standard: setserial
Not essential: cat, chgrp, false, login, more, sed, su, true, uname
Appropriately hard-coded pathname: /bin/sh
Belong in /sbin, not /bin: mount, umount
> + { tar, gzip, gunzip (link to gzip), zcat (link to gzip) }
None of these are, of course, necessary. Next thing you know they'll
be demaning /bin/perl!
-GAWollman
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