Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles)

[Richard Kreuter]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 12:24:07PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
>
> /var is for data that cannot be shared between different machines.

  /var/mail, /var/spool/news are shareable, no?

  The FHS states /var is for "variable" files.

> Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome@real-time.com> writes:

> >     what's the logic behind the /com name?
> 
> We needed a place for mutable data that could be shared between
> machines...

  So should the sharable parts of FHS's /var be in /com on GNU?  If
so, should /var/mail, et al., be links to /com/mail and so forth?

Thanks,
Richard