Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 09:01:37 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: gmarco@giovannelli.it, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Editors in /bin (was: Why ...) Message-ID: <19981221090137.F24125@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199812200805.JAA00654@www.giovannelli.it>; from Gianmarco Giovannelli on Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 01:55:56AM %2B0100 References: <199812200805.JAA00654@www.giovannelli.it>
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On Sunday, 20 December 1998 at 1:55:56 +0100, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > > Why there is no text editor in /bin or /sbin or /stand (a simple > text editor, vi, ee or anything else) ? There is: ed > I have the /usr mounted async ... How can edited a file (like > something in /etc) if I am not able to mount the /usr ? > > The only thing I found is ed in /bin but it isn't so much fair to use... It's the traditional ``small'' editor. On my PDP-11, it is all of 9418 bytes long. vi is 82438 bytes long and is in /usr/ucb (since it's BSD software). Sure, you can argue that this is no longer appropriate. But the shared libraries are also in /usr, so any editor in the root file system must be statically linked. Then the question arises: which editor should it be. The answer's simple: the one *you* want. Just link it statically and put it in /bin (not /sbin). Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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