Re: potato missing /dev's
On 1 Feb 2000, James LewisMoss wrote:
> Jules> Which would be fine, except that it *is* in the default path,
> Jules> being symlinked into /sbin.
>
> Well slap me silly. I had missed this. Then I agree in part. It
> shouldn't be in the default path or it should by default put things in
> /dev and require an arg to do otherwise.
*slap* :-)
>
> Jules> We put things in the path so people can run them from any
> Jules> working directory. This does seem foolish for something which
> Jules> does somethin most people won't want if the wd is anything
> Jules> apart from /dev.
>
> I agree.
>
> Jules> I suggest making the file live somewhere in /usr/lib, with a
> Jules> symlink in /dev as currently. Then people who want to create
> Jules> device files elsewhere just run (cd somewhere;/dev/MAKEDEV)
> Jules> whilst people who want them in /dev run (cd /dev;./MAKEDEV)
> Jules> which is the historically accepted way of running it.
>
> Why not just have it like in /dev?
Presumably, because of the FHS? Or for devfs compatibility?
(I.e. I don't know, but I assumed there was a reason ;-)
Jules
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