Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: adding sbin directories to PATH for all users

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 09:53:47PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >>>>> 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
 
Solaris was also the first *nix to adopt the /usr merge (/bin /sbin and
/usr/sbin all are just links to /usr/bin), but that's a topic for
another thread.

William


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