Hi, On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 10:56:52AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net> writes: > > > It's questionable that they should be artificially hidden in the first > > place, but hey. =) > > The purpose of /sbin is not to "hide" anything, but to avoid > cluttering users' command namespace with commands they can't usefully > ever use. That's the intention, but it has long, long lost its value. With the number of 'commands' in the thousands, there is no *humanly perceptible* difference in size of the command namespace have only /bin or also /sbin in your PATH. On the Amiga, with 20-some commands in your c: directory, list c: would help you choose among commands if you couldn't remember one. ls /bin doesn't help anymore. It already has much too many for that. I already always put /sbin in the system-wide path. It has no consequences for security, and on some systems, even tools such as ping are there. Having a symlink definitely makes sense for the Hurd, and shows that /any/ tool may be useful for the user, regardless of his permission level. It just depends on the user. Cheers, Emiile. -- E-Advies / Emile van Bergen | emile@e-advies.info tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 | http://www.e-advies.info
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