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 D07A11384B4 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 21:39:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E3FC21C0D2; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 21:39:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-oi0-f43.google.com (mail-oi0-f43.google.com [209.85.218.43]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ABEB121C0C2 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 21:39:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by oixx65 with SMTP id x65so36795122oix.0 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 13:39:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:sender:date:from:to:subject:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; bh=vwwTztNUrKS8c3DomGxDFalMbVqammxT285yPLUSBek=; b=ISFvebxEGHHtdx45KO9nm16dxZkLTpEsNkyBDWG4FO4MSWocTLu51Cb/62mmx26YwU wdwHsTeD1tZXdlRaxo0YKz/bA0ht3/0/jCR/qAtViXKpfFuCa6h2pOgbtDgM1b2m1o2i 3kQGdpSwFjdC2unGIHj8rtqJtNM2ph7O/FzhXDupuRN0Rjp9Wwo7Zurh8u1LOuD+THWF rjqxHnrcSQMJAjC2yqJVuaT4x3QlmPBvZrNvJY/m10nywaTaYRk94F3fVPe03Nd5ua97 hU8NNjoUMieQDazAvSh/zWZs4qFb5+k1GX5fz7MU1Dd+EFSx+PqSXR1HqbrdStf9r9hs 5shw== X-Received: by 10.202.92.138 with SMTP id q132mr12307434oib.45.1448487574974; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 13:39:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from linux1 (cpe-66-68-34-247.austin.res.rr.com. [66.68.34.247]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id gv8sm11418016obb.20.2015.11.25.13.39.34 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 25 Nov 2015 13:39:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <56562a96.a86ab60a.b5909.ffff83b1@mx.google.com> X-Google-Original-Message-ID: <20151125213925.GA17113@linux1.gaikai.biz,> Sender: William Hubbs Received: (nullmailer pid 17155 invoked by uid 1000); Wed, 25 Nov 2015 21:39:25 -0000 Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 15:39:25 -0600 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: adding sbin directories to PATH for all users 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> <20151125194715.GA19373@whubbs1.ad.gaikai.biz> <22102.8155.88897.317454@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="vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <22102.8155.88897.317454@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Archives-Salt: ba69dfd5-bcaa-41bd-9f58-9f5441a4f15f X-Archives-Hash: dfa91be0f1e8845146491144d8ececec --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 09:53:47PM +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 >=20 > 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 =20 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 --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlZWKo0ACgkQblQW9DDEZTjqxgCeP0bnKFWLU1+6at8HrROfr7oP S7UAn2l76vzr9MsgtW951uwUQ0I8nBaO =qA7Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd--