On Tue, 17 May 2011 19:14:27 +1000, Karl Goetz <[email protected]> wrote: > The current wording says bash must exist, so i guess this wasn't such > an issue (bash has printf as a builtin). > There is a bug about changing to reference posix instead of specifying > bash, perhaps this could be added as a prerequisite for that change. a) Making bash a requirement should be dropped anyway. b) Does it say bash needs to be installed, or does it say /bin/sh needs to be bash? c) In any case: As printf might be called with full path,.. it should be required IMHO.
It's not that big deal anyway, is it? I mean one more small binary... > minor comments here: > as /root is defined as optional, i'd say its implicitly not required. > /var/run is going to become /run (don't know if that affects your > comment or not) Yes I knew about these... I'd just like to have one central place where all this is clearly stated, i.e. what can/must be expected to be avialable when (if at all). > If i was proposing changes I would rather suggest change the wording to > specify filesystem*s* (rather then the current filesystem) to allow the > practise of (for example) using /mnt/sdc4 /mnt/sdb3 to rsync data > between during recoveries. But this would already open up the abuse from applications as the CG stuff I've mentioned before. I'd simply say it is intended to be a single temporary mountpoint to be handled by the admin (and especially not used by any programs). If the admin now decides to makes subdirs, than this is up to him. > We can't know which filesystems this is in advance. That's why I say,.. put it completely in the hands of the distros. > there are bugs about X11R6 and the */games directories, are there other > locations to look for? No I guess that's it.... IIRC there were also some /*/X11 dirs. Maybe one could also drop this. Chris. _______________________________________________ fhs-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss
