[nycbug-talk] why /var?
Isaac Levy
ike
Sat Feb 19 20:53:53 EST 2005
Hi All,
On Feb 18, 2005, at 1:42 PM, Jay wrote:
> This is probably a theological issue, though.
Heh. I've spent a lot of time studying userland hierarchies on various
systems in the last year, and from what I've found historically, this
has indeed always been a theological issue <g>. Every notable
variation I've seen simply has various tradeoffs, but what I've found
interesting, is that things fundamentally haven't changed in 35+ years
for most systems. The lexical logic is the same- and on most systems,
pretty easy to figure out- (i.e. I've seen veteran BSD heads not even
flinch jumping into /Users/<homedir> on OSX- [though perhaps grumble
about the upper-case U]).
Especially after Bob posted the Next/Cocoa logic, what I wanted to
contribute to this thread is:
man 7 hier
A bunch of folks here likely already know about this man page, but for
those who don't, any good unix should explain it's reasoning for it's
userland layout.
With that, I'll post a few man pages in this thread from various boxen
running close to me,, but the FreeBSD man page site has man hier for
all the BSD's, and a LOT of other platforms, here:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?
query=hier&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-
RELEASE+and+Ports&format=html
--
If you have a platform that's not there, I'd love to see the hier man
page posted in this thread-
If you want to make a text file of a man page, it's annoying to pipe to
file because of the reverse-line-feeds when printed on screen, here's
the commands I used to make the files I'm posting to this thread
(replace 'SomeUnixFilename.txt' with whatever filename you want to):
uname -a >> SomeUnixFilename.txt && man hier | col -bx >>
SomeUnixFilename.txt
Rocket-
.ike
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