Re: Intent To Split: netbase
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 09:54:40PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On the other hand, fsck seems to be a good example of a program that can't
> do much for the unprivileged user.
That's not true. You can have disk image files you might want to check for
correctness.
In the Hurd, any user can boot a subhurd (a self contained system with its
own critical server processes and root fs, much better than chroot) and
wreck it. With fsck you can controll afterwards if the bug you traced down
in the subhurd (with gdb from the parent hurd) was corrupting the
filesystem.
There are probably some emulators on Linux that will benefit from this as
well.
The distinction between sbin and bin is not a hard one. It is soft based on
experience and the common case. It's also basically nonsense, because of the
2176 binaries in my path, I use a couple of dozen regularly, and having 300
further, even useless, binaries wouldn't distract me in any way.
Thanks,
Marcus
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