Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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 >> the statically linked recovery things would be placed, in case the >> shared libraries got hosed. The only things that needed to be >> statically linked though, were system utilities, which is why people >> probably started to associate the "s" with system, rather than static. > >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.
That's the way things work in Solaris. It's more a difference between System V and BSD, rather than one scheme evolving into another. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at/ ARDNAMURCHAN POINT TO CAPE WRATH INCLUDING THE OUTER HEBRIDES: WEST 5 OR 6 BACKING SOUTH 4 OR 5, VEERING SOUTHWEST LATER, AND INCREASING 6 LATER IN THE SOUTH. OCCASIONAL RAIN. MODERATE OR GOOD. MODERATE OR ROUGH, OCCASIONALLY SLIGHT IN SHELTERED EASTERN WATERS. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
