Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes )

[Matthew Dillon]

:> 
:> > So how about /usr/sbin/chown -> /sbin/chown so that MAKEDEV works with
:> > just the root file system mounted?   
:> 
:> As one who just got his ass bitten by this, I would vote yes.
:
:As one who's missed chown at times when only root's mounted, I'm with Bill.
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: Ben Rosengart
:
:UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group
:StarMedia Network, Inc.

    I think at one time or another all of us have missed *something* in
    /usr that wasn't in /.  For example, disklabel -e doesn't work without
    vi -- which is in /usr.

    But if we go down that path we are going to wind up with *every* binary
    in /usr being moved to /, which is clearly wrong.

    Moving a well known, long-existing system binary is not something that
    should be undertaken lightly.  I will remind everyone that when
    sendmail was moved from /usr/libexec to /usr/sbin, it created 
    ramifications that didn't clear up for a year.  Sendmail's move could be
    justified, but I don't think chown's move can be -- certainly not on
    the basis of something as flimsy as MAKEDEV needing it!

                                        -Matt
                                        Matthew Dillon 
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