22 Jul
2020
22 Jul
'20
3:35 a.m.
On Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 9:30 PM Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org>
wrote:
On 7/21/20 7:16 PM, tytso(a)mit.edu wrote:
I think it was Ted clarifying me :)
Warner
Yeah, that's definitely not right. /sbin
had been around for
"essential system binaries" long before Linux, and Linux took it
from there.
I'm sorry, I think there has been a misunderstanding. I did not mean to
imply that Linux influenced the larger Unix community with /sbin.
Rather the other way around, that that's the time that Linux had been
influenced about /sbin.
You can see this from the Linux Filesystem
Hierarchy Standard (earlier
named fsstnd, which specified /sbin as "essential system binaries").
I should revisit that, particularly in light of an older name and use.
SunOS used that nomenclature and the GNU tools
all used /sbin for
that purpose.
Did Solaris follow in SunOS's foot steps? Or did Solaris do something
different?
The other thing I'd again urge is that you
not take HJ Lu's boot/root
disks as being influencial after early 1992.
Okay. I naively thought that HJ Lu's boot/root was falling out of favor
in '93, a year later. Thank you for clarifying Warner.
--
Grant. . . .
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