[TUHS] Understanding the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin Split

Tim Bradshaw tfb at tfeb.org
Thu Feb 2 23:35:58 AEST 2012


On 1 Feb 2012, at 09:26, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:

> The Berkeley guys did NOT invent shared libraries.  Shared libraries as
> we know them came originally from Sun, on SunOS 4.x for sure, possibly
> on SunOS 3.x. (Larry?)  Many commercial vendors adopted the design (Ultrix,
> I think, and maybe others) and finally around 4.4 they found their way into
> "pure" BSD.

4.  3 may have had them but not in any version we had, so I'd guess not in a major release, anyway.


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