Subject: Re: Nitpicking
To: Peter Galbavy <peter@wonderland.org>
From: Dirk Steinberg <steinber@schoenfix.ert.rwth-aachen.de>
List: current-users
Date: 02/16/1994 09:09:09
>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Galbavy <peter@wonderland.org> writes:
Peter> Just a bit of nitpicking... As I understand it
Peter> /usr/libexec is for executables that are started by the
Peter> system or similar, not users. So why are the mount_*
Peter> programs in /usr/sbin then ?
Peter> Thought you'd find that question pointless, but I had to
Peter> ask.
I assume it's because the mount_* stuff is used to mount (surprised?)
things. Among them may also be /usr, so you can't put them into
/usr/libexec.
This is just my guess and not authoritative,
Dirk
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