Re: /usr/bin/sleep

["Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>]

Galen Hazelwood wrote:
>Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
>> Posix says that sleep (1) should be in /bin/sleep, not in /usr/bin/sleep.
>> This should be changed in the Debian shellutils package (1.16-5).

>The fsstnd says nothing about this, but it only lists the minimum requirements for
>/bin.  Does anybody have any strong opinions about this?

I should think that Posix is a strong enough opinion.

How did sleep end up in /usr/bin anyway?  It has always been in /bin as long
as I can remember (which is every system I've worked with since 1987).
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           Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless).

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