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

[Grant Bowman]

* Richard Kreuter <kreuter@ausar.rutgers.edu> [020512 22:44]:
> GNU specific annex:
> 
> 6.2  GNU
> 
> This is the annex for the GNU operating system.  We sometimes refer
> to this as the GNU/Hurd system, in cases where it is necessary to
> distinguish the GNU system from other systems that use large amounts
> of GNU software.

Good, but I think this does not acknowledge that GNU/Linux is still a
GNU system.

> The GNU system is special compared to other UNIX-like operating
> systems in the way it treats the filesystem namespace. The filesystem
> namespace is very flexible, you can do anything with it what you
> want. That's why it is reasonable to specify where you should find
> directories and files, but not the way those directories and files
> should get there.
> 
> As a rule, distributors who wish to maintain compatibility between
> their distributions of GNU/Hurd, GNU/Linux, or other systems may
> maintain symbolic links to files whose locations on GNU systems differ
                                                      GNU/Hurd?
> from their locations on other systems.  This accomodates programs with
> "hard-coded" filenames. For example, files that should be found under
> /libexec may be symbolic links, or may be the targets of symbolic
> links located under /sbin, /bin, and so forth.

Generally, I think GNU alone is ambiguous and shouldn't be used given
the climate today.

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-- Grant Bowman                                <grantbow@grantbow.com>