pá 4. 6. 2021 v 11:17 odesílatel Joel Jacobson <j...@compiler.org> napsal:
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2021, at 08:58, Pavel Stehule wrote: > > It is the same as using the command line without the possibility to > customize the PATH variable. The advantages and disadvantages are exactly > the same. > > > The reason why we even have PATH in the *nix world, > is not because they *wanted* to separate things (like we want with schemas > or extensions), > but because they *needed* to, because /bin was overflowed: > > "The UNIX shell gave up the Multics idea of a search path and looked for > program names that weren’t > file names in just one place, /bin. Then in v3 /bin overflowed the small > (256K), fast fixed-head drive. > Thus was /usr/bin born, and the idea of a search path reinstated." [1] > > [1] https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/reader.pdf > > It's funny - sometimes too restrictive limits are reason for design of longer living concepts Pavel /Joel >
