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Article #623812Re: First use of /sbin in Unix?
From: Grant Taylor
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 02:51
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 02:51
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On 06/05/2018 11:16 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote: > 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. I'm not tracking why /sbin was created to deal with things under /usr. Was /bin a sym-link to /usr/bin before this? I thought that was a Solaris thing. I get needing dependent libraries or static linking. But I would have thought that any libraries that things in /bin needed would be in /lib. I always viewed /(root) and /usr and /usr/local as three very distinct hierarchies. (That's part of why the /bin sym-link to /usr/bin bugged me so much.) -- Grant. . . . unix || die
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