Quoting Daniel Taylor (ran...@argle.org): > I thought it was "system"....
Could be -- but as, in effect, a synonym for superuser. , but I don't even know who originated the > separation. Thompson and Ritchie, as a kludge to deal with the need to span two disk packs on their PDP-11, back in 1971. (Subsequent functional use for the split of course differs.) Upthread, I provided the link to my friend Rob Landley telling the anecdote about that '71 kludge. > As for the "statically linked binaries in /sbin", that may come from > the (formerly?) common practice of having all the binaries needed > for system startup statically linked in case something happened to > /lib. Seems farfetched. Also, I've been in *ix for a long time, and haven't heard that particular concern. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
