On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Max Bowsher wrote:
Dr. Volker Zell wrote:Max Bowsher writes:
> I'd like some opinions...
Do we really need another top level directory /srv ?
First, thanks for looking at the package!
To answer your question, Cygwin generally follows the FHS, and FHS 2.3 says /srv is the proper place for such things. SuSE has picked up on this change, too.
FHS also defines /sbin for local administrative utility programs, but we use /usr/sbin (since Cygwin makes no distinction between local and remote mounts, and doesn't need something to be present at boot, like Linux does). How about changing /srv to /usr/srv?
Because that would be just bizarre.
The FHS defines both /sbin and /usr/sbin, but only defines /srv, not /usr/srv.
Also the FHS defines /usr to be read-only during normal operation.
Max.
