From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 18 15: 6:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F093A37B403 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 15:06:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.4/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f6IM5lv11521; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 15:05:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <9D4A4E19244ED4119BE90050DAD5DD47BC5549@mail.quidel.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 15:05:57 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Etienne de Bruin Subject: RE: release.8 (4.3-RELEASE) Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18-Jul-01 Etienne de Bruin wrote: > I was reading the Makefile in /usr/src/release and wondering about the > > for dir in bin sbin ; do \ > ln -sf /stand $$dir; \ > done > > part in release.8 - it is my understanding that all that is under /stand is > linked to files in $$dir. > > What does this accomplish? No, it links $$dir to /stand. This creates /sbin and /bin directories so that you can still see /bin/ls even though ls is really in /stand/ls. This is to make a "normal" path work right, and to allow scripts which assume the default location of utilities work. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message