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On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 09:53:47PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> >> > From what I've read, the traditional difference between bin and sbin |
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> >> > was that sbin means static-bin and everything stored in there was to |
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> >> > be able to come up without libraries. |
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> >> Source/reference for this? |
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> > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3519952 |
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> Hm, SunOS end of 1980s. Soon after (Solaris 2.0 ca. 1992) they |
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> switched to the current meaning and had executables in /usr/sbin |
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> "to be run only by system administrators": |
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> https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26505_01/html/816-5175/filesystem-5.html |
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Solaris was also the first *nix to adopt the /usr merge (/bin /sbin and |
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/usr/sbin all are just links to /usr/bin), but that's a topic for |
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another thread. |
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William |
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