On 7/24/19 10:24 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > ... In more recent times, binaries that are mostly applicable to the > super user go there. I don't see why you would want to merge those. > A normal user rarely has need of much in /sbin. Already /bin has way > too much stuff in it (although I don't see any other way to > practically do it without ridiculous PATHs searching all over the > disk).
On ancient file systems (SysV?), ISTR something like 1400 files in a directory being some sort of limit, or perhaps a major performance issue. Separate directories (including /usr/X11/bin) mitigated that, too. > Having said that, I note that on my CentOS 7 workstation, sbin seems > to be in the path by default. So that negates my argument I suppose. > Although I might have made that change myself. My .shrc file has all sorts of leftovers from the old days, but my current Linux PATH is just $HOME/bin, $HOME/local/bin, and /usr/bin. Get Off My Lawn, Dan -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
