From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAB091384B4 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:48:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1550921C0C1; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:48:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1CF8521C0AC for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:48:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [100.42.103.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: williamh) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 08CC2340139 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:48:34 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 13:47:15 -0600 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: adding sbin directories to PATH for all users Message-ID: <20151125194715.GA19373@whubbs1.ad.gaikai.biz> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20151125171011.GA8731@whubbs1.ad.gaikai.biz> <5655F183.70102@gentoo.org> <20151125181411.GA19143@whubbs1.ad.gaikai.biz> <22101.65138.716590.807534@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20151125183830.GA19269@whubbs1.ad.gaikai.biz> <22102.843.697962.119455@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="DocE+STaALJfprDB" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <22102.843.697962.119455@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Archives-Salt: e25f6361-7e9b-45ad-a690-1eb766aae7c8 X-Archives-Hash: d7580f8f83741f8bb62bb311919d870b --DocE+STaALJfprDB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 07:51:55PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, William Hubbs wrote: >=20 > > From what I've read, the traditional difference between bin and sbin > > was that sbin means static-bin and everything stored in there was to > > be able to come up without libraries. >=20 > Source/reference for this? =20 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3D3519952 > > As mgorny was talking about earlier, a good chunk of what is in sbin > > *can* be run by normal users. >=20 > Then it shouldn't be in sbin, in the first place. That's a separate > discussion though. Also, there is another source that talks about why the split originally happened and why it meant basically nothing, even before the days of Linux. http://www.osnews.com/story/25556/Understanding_the_bin_sbin_usr_bin_usr_s= bin_Split/ William --DocE+STaALJfprDB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlZWEEMACgkQblQW9DDEZTgRcwCgmWmMUbyZsIq0hOMC5GIzRwNu jZMAoKTxNfkZT85jNFvW5BkTecCZKMbp =d4j6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DocE+STaALJfprDB--