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Article #623811Re: First use of /sbin in Unix?
From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 17:16
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 17:16
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DMcCunney <dennis....@gmail.com> writes: >This came up elsewhere, but hasn't gotten a definitive answer. This >forum is a repository of computer history, so someone here might know. > >When did the /sbin directory first appear in Unix, and who did it? Somewhere around SVR4. Originally it was for statically-linked binaries that were required when /usr was a mount point and libs.so was under /usr/lib. > >It *doesn't* exist in the AT&T SysVR2 version running on my AT&T 3B1 >from the late 80s. (And I asked Unix co-creator Brian Kernighan and he >didn't know, which indicates it wasn't a Bell Labs introduction.) > >Links I've followed make it look like it was a side-effect of the >attempt to fuse System V and BSD that resulted in Solaris, but I can't >find a definitive statement. (I've never used BSD and have no idea what >it brought to the table.) > >If anyone here can nail this down, information will be gratefully accepted. > >Thanks in advance, >______ >Dennis
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