← Back to context Comment by IgorPartola 4 days ago The s in sbin stood for static initially. Of course nowadays this is not enforced. 2 comments IgorPartola Reply buzer 4 days ago What is the source for that? Some of the oldest references to sbin I can find are 4.3BSD Net/2 man pages (https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier&apropos=0&sek...) and Filesystem Standard v1.0 (https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/fsstnd/old/fsstnd-1.0...). Former doesn't mention anything about static binaries, latter only mentions that static ln (and even mentions sln being static version of ln) and sync can be useful. JdeBP 2 days ago There are no contemporary sources for that because it is, as it was called here on Hacker News some years ago, an 'ahistoric retcon'.* https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/02/msg00041.html
buzer 4 days ago What is the source for that? Some of the oldest references to sbin I can find are 4.3BSD Net/2 man pages (https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier&apropos=0&sek...) and Filesystem Standard v1.0 (https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/fsstnd/old/fsstnd-1.0...). Former doesn't mention anything about static binaries, latter only mentions that static ln (and even mentions sln being static version of ln) and sync can be useful. JdeBP 2 days ago There are no contemporary sources for that because it is, as it was called here on Hacker News some years ago, an 'ahistoric retcon'.* https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/02/msg00041.html
JdeBP 2 days ago There are no contemporary sources for that because it is, as it was called here on Hacker News some years ago, an 'ahistoric retcon'.* https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/02/msg00041.html
What is the source for that? Some of the oldest references to sbin I can find are 4.3BSD Net/2 man pages (https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier&apropos=0&sek...) and Filesystem Standard v1.0 (https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/fsstnd/old/fsstnd-1.0...). Former doesn't mention anything about static binaries, latter only mentions that static ln (and even mentions sln being static version of ln) and sync can be useful.
There are no contemporary sources for that because it is, as it was called here on Hacker News some years ago, an 'ahistoric retcon'.
* https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/02/msg00041.html