On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 10:03:06AM -0500, Andrew Cady wrote: > > Apparently the BSD folks decided in retrospect that mixing binaries with > configuration was a bad idea. But why not put them in /bin? It may > well have been performance reasons; that also seems to have been the > original reason for placing binaries in /usr/bin. At least, AT&T unix > shipped everything in /bin, but recommended the administrator place most > of those commands in /usr/bin for faster performance on lookups in /bin.
So. presumably the advent of filesystems that can handle large directories efficiently (like reiser) have made some of these distinctions unnecessary? Or maybe the user in intended to do ls /bin whenever he forgets the name of a common command without being distracted by commands he can't or probably won't want to execute? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
