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1. EdScho+Oa[view] [source] 2022-05-11 07:57:55
>>taubek+(OP)
I once sent out a proposal on the FreeBSD lists to merge /sbin with /bin, and /usr/sbin with /usr/bin. People were concerned that this would slow down the system, due to PATH lookups taking longer. Even when I demonstrated the opposite was true (it being faster due to fewer directories needing to be scanned), I wasn't able to get consensus. What a shame.
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2. pseudo+im[view] [source] 2022-05-11 09:58:28
>>EdScho+Oa
Please correct me if I'm wrong. Aren't binaries in /sbin and /usr/sbin statically linked as opposed to no requirement like this for files living in /bin and /usr/bin?

I always thought the rationale was that if statically linked binaries are on different partition they can be used to recover the system from a failure.

Edit: files in /bin are also statically linked, and I am unsure about what I wrote above but vaguely recall something like that

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3. upofad+lw[view] [source] 2022-05-11 11:35:19
>>pseudo+im
I just checked and the programs in /bin on OpenBSD are in fact statically linked. The ones in /usr/sbin are not.
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