Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 07 January 2008 20:35:02 Bill Anderson wrote:
The FHS document applies to Linux, not to Unix. The symbolic link of /bin to /usr/bin only exits in current Unix file system hierarchies. I just checked an AIX 5.3 system and a Solaris 10 system, both have this symbolic link.
Yes, I know some unix systems does it that way, but as I mentioned, it's not permitted under the FHS
I don't know of a Unix distribution that abides by FHS. As I mentioned before, Unix tends to use hard links rather than symbolic links. A perfect example is vi, ex, edit, and vedit are all hard links to the same inode.
I think unix systems get away with it because they have virtually nothing in /usr/bin, they stick just about everything in /opt, don't they. So they can still have a small root partition, even while including /usr
That was the intent, but it doesn't seem to old in practice. With AIX, a lot of stuff gets put in the lpp directory with symbolic links from other directories to the lpp directory. I have also seen symbolic links in /usr/bin that point to /opt/bin. It was one of those ideas whose implementation fell short of expectations.
Anders
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