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 20BC81384B4 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 20:54:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 633A421C0C6; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 20:53:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 51B5821C097 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 20:53:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.9/8.14.7) with ESMTP id tAPKrlIa003505 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 21:53:47 +0100 Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.8/8.14.2) with ESMTP id tAPKrlUd029298; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 21:53:47 +0100 Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id tAPKrlp7029294; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 21:53:47 +0100 Message-ID: <22102.8155.88897.317454@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 21:53:47 +0100 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: adding sbin directories to PATH for all users In-Reply-To: <20151125194715.GA19373@whubbs1.ad.gaikai.biz> 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> <20151125194715.GA19373@whubbs1.ad.gaikai.biz> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) From: Ulrich Mueller 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; boundary="pgp+signed+5CPHXmqIhGKfmKN"; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 73c855a4-7130-4f56-8e2e-5340b041dc36 X-Archives-Hash: 4789a1cd1818e8a89d8674ca14b84512 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --pgp+signed+5CPHXmqIhGKfmKN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>>>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, William Hubbs wrote: >> > 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. >> >> Source/reference for this? > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3519952 Hm, SunOS end of 1980s. Soon after (Solaris 2.0 ca. 1992) they switched to the current meaning and had executables in /usr/sbin "to be run only by system administrators": https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26505_01/html/816-5175/filesystem-5.html Anyway, whatever the history is, I guess we should go with the current FHS definition of sbin. Ulrich --pgp+signed+5CPHXmqIhGKfmKN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWVh/RAAoJEMMJBoUcYcJzZBoH/RdyNvvMquwasaAMqljoznVU Z6gFT6aWQr59O7XNJYqXBak8RUzJyGghW7k255I/vtatkrR59funltrHvDQFWaaH brqIuEpEoSvEdSbxMI0f0/IFOueXJc8viFaLwF2rQwaj6JPZIVFhEUwM0y9dz9gZ Il7t/5742wJ4jzc6dYPdyyCRXuiPpZluHKTzmYEXP0lA9kTDf+KhDJtHm7pFIFHz uIWY3c4n1wy7iuDxYvY57eQrWxuFXJjdJOhN0MbZrC2W1ZFAey3h6T2x9Po8cini hdnhs2NMm93GGRQRSald97mt/1Om1VFHwCFs0i5d8z4/Cg9fLtOgG3oUp/KTaok= =7tRv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pgp+signed+5CPHXmqIhGKfmKN--