[TUHS] /bin vs /sbin

[Warner Losh]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 9:30 PM Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org>
wrote:

> On 7/21/20 7:16 PM, tytso at mit.edu wrote:
> > 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.
>

I think it was Ted clarifying me :)

Warner

>
> --
> Grant. . . .
> unix || die
>
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