Dennis Clarke wrote:
Was there a document at some point in history ( this is UNIX and it
has tons of history ) called the FSSTD or was it FHS ?
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
( this may be a Linux animal however )
That's the Linux Standards Base filesystem layout, and should be
violently ignored by Solaris.
In any case we seem to have a few guidelines that no one breaks. The
X11 kit is always dropped into /usr/X11R6 correctly. Why not into
/usr/sfw/X11R6 ? Or perhaps /usr/openwin/X11R6 ?
Umm, only in Solaris 10 does Solaris finally have /usr/X11 & /usr/X11R6.
Most of X is still in /usr/openwin, completely annoying to everyone who
builds portable software or works with X on other systems. That's
probably the biggest example of where Solaris has always broken the
guidelines that other systems follow.
(1) Is there a UNIX standard ? ( this is just yes or no )
(2) What is the UNIX standard?
(3) Do we respect that standard ? ( Is this a yes or no ? )
The UNIX(tm) standard is defined by The Open Group. See
http://www.unix.org/
UNIX 03 is the current version which Solaris 10 and later conform to.
Solaris filesystem locations have also traditionally conformed to the
SVID standard (originally from AT&T to define what SVR4 was), but I
don't know if we've kept up to date on that.
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-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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