[TUHS] User maintained programs in the Second Edition

[SPC]

2016-12-22 10:22 GMT+01:00 Joerg Schilling <schily at schily.net>:
> Diomidis Spinellis <dds at aueb.gr> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone remember whether at the time these were installed in the
>> system-wide /bin directory, or whether they were only available in their
>> owners' home directories?
>
> From what I remember from a talk from Stephen Bourne at a Sun user group
> meeting in 1990, user maintained programs have been installed in /usr/bin.
>
> Stephen Bourne after some time wrote a cron job that checked whether an update
> in a binary also resulted in an updated man page and otherwise removed the
> binary. This is why these programs have man pages.
>
> Jörg
>
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Impressive. Everything has a reason, that's clear. A primitive but
more or less effective security measure for new software installations
:-)

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