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* On 2005.04.28, in <20050428233116.GA15440@xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxx>, * "Michael G Schwern" <schwern@xxxxx.xxx> wrote: > > How is a user supposed to know the difference? Why even have this artificial > split? The split makes sense to me. It's Apple's choices for each category that make no sense. > Unix does this, too, with the whole bin vs sbin thing. traceroute and > ifconfig being the two I'm always losing. That's a hate, indeed, because it used to mean something, once upon a time. Sbin was for static tools, the sort of thing you don't want to crap out because your libc is hosed, or not yet mounted. These days no vendors put any stock in separation or recoverability. Most would prefer to stow everything onto one filesystem and dynamlically link everything. On Solaris it's getting near impossible to static-link anything, because basic OS services are *able* to use DSOs for lookups and such, and libdl only comes shared. HATE. Actually I've all but given up hating in this arena. Sanity lost that battle years ago. -- -D. dgc@xxxxxxxx.xxx NSIT University of Chicago
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