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Am Sat, 10 Feb 2018 21:20:16 +0000 schrieb Wol's lists: |
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> On 10/02/18 20:06, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 2:52 PM, Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@×××××.com> |
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>>> Am Sat, 10 Feb 2018 19:38:56 +0000 schrieb Wols Lists: |
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>>>> On 10/02/18 18:56, Kai Krakow wrote: |
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>>>>> role and /usr takes the role of /, and /home already took the role |
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>>>>> of /usr (that's why it's called /usr, it was user data in early |
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>>>>> unix). The |
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>>>> Actually no, not at all. /usr is not short for USeR, it's an acronym |
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>>>> for User System Resources, which is why it contains OS stuff, not |
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>>>> user stuff. Very confusing, I know. |
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>>> From |
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>>> https://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr.html: |
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>>>> In the original Unix implementations, /usr was where the home |
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>>>> directories of the users were placed (that is to say, /usr/someone |
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>>>> was then the directory now known as /home/someone). In current |
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>>>> Unices, /usr is where user-land programs and data (as opposed to |
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>>>> 'system land' programs and data) are. The name hasn't changed, but |
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>>>> it's meaning has narrowed and lengthened from "everything user |
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>>>> related" to "user usable programs and data". As such, some people may |
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>>>> now refer to this directory as meaning 'User System Resources' and |
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>>>> not 'user' as was originally intended. |
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>>> So, actually the acronym was only invented later to represent the new |
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>>> role of the directory. ;-) |
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>> A bit more of history here: |
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>> http://www.osnews.com/story/25556/ |
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Understanding_the_bin_sbin_usr_bin_usr_sbin_Split |
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> Fascinating. And I made a typo, which is interesting too - I always knew |
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> it as Unix System Resources - typing "user" was a mistake ... I wonder |
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> how much weird info is down to mistakes like that :-) |
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You should trust your hidden secret skills more... :-D |
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Regards, |
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Kai |
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