* Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031116 23:21]: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 07:24:00PM -0700, Brent Jones wrote: > > This is just a case of OS evolution. /sbin used to be the place where > > the statically linked recovery things would be placed, in case the > > shared libraries got hosed. The only things that needed to be > > statically linked though, were system utilities, which is why people > > probably started to associate the "s" with system, rather than static. > > > > When this happened, you started to see the duplicates that used to > > exist in /bin (or /usr/bin) and /sbin disappear. Since you still need > > a place to have statically linked recovery utilities, /rescue was > > created. Now you see the duplicates in /bin (or /usr/bin) and /rescue > > instead. > > Do you have any references for this? Every single place that I can > find explains /sbin as "system binaries". I have also never heard of > there ever being duplicates in /bin of the files in /sbin.
Also, wouldn't the names 'bin' and 'sbin' pre-date the existiance of dynamically linked binaries? AFAIK the primary difference between the two was the /bin was typically in a user's PATH and /sbin was not. --Mike
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