Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) and OpenBSD

2011-05-10 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Tue, 10 May 2011 01:21: wrote: On 05/10/2011 12:28 AM, Kamo Hiroyasu wrote: I do not understand the benefits of FHS for Unixen other than Linux. Most Unixen, including OpenBSD, are older than FHS and have their own historical constraints. What do we obtain except for switching costs if we

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) and OpenBSD

2011-05-10 Thread Mark Kettenis
Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 23:21:23 -0500 From: Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 11:33:27PM -0400, Jeff Licquia wrote: (Sorry if this isn't the proper list for this discussion. If not, please point me in the right direction.) The Linux Foundation's LSB workgroup

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) and OpenBSD

2011-05-10 Thread Brynet
Many UNIX systems include a hier(7) man page, OpenBSD is no exception. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hiermanpath=OpenBSD+Currentformat=html -Bryan.

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) and OpenBSD

2011-05-10 Thread Henning Brauer
* Jeff Licquia j...@licquia.org [2011-05-10 05:36]: My question to you is: do you consider the FHS to be relevant to current and future development of OpenBSD? If not, is this simply due to lack of maintenance; would your interest in the FHS be greater with more consistent updates? we'll

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) and OpenBSD

2011-05-10 Thread Artur Grabowski
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 5:33 AM, Jeff Licquia j...@licquia.org wrote: My question to you is: do you consider the FHS to be relevant to current and future development of OpenBSD? If not, is this simply due to lack of maintenance; would your interest in the FHS be greater with more consistent

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) and OpenBSD

2011-05-10 Thread Ian McWilliam
On 10/05/2011 5:34 PM, Artur Grabowski wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 5:33 AM, Jeff Licquiaj...@licquia.org wrote: My question to you is: do you consider the FHS to be relevant to current and future development of OpenBSD? If not, is this simply due to lack of maintenance; would your

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) and OpenBSD

2011-05-10 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 10 May 2011 09:05:13 +0200 Landry Breuil wrote: Some parts of FHS won't apply on OpenBSD, like /srv, /opt, Linux ignores security mechanisms like noexec on /tmp, /home and then pointlessly adds /opt seemingly just to annoy people who care about partitioning!! And DON'T try spinning me

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) and OpenBSD

2011-05-10 Thread Thordur Bjornsson
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 11:33:27PM -0400, Jeff Licquia wrote: (Sorry if this isn't the proper list for this discussion. If not, please point me in the right direction.) This is the proper list. Despite all the Linux in the names above, we're wanting to make sure that the FHS remains

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) and OpenBSD

2011-05-10 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Jeff, Jeff Licquia wrote on Mon, May 09, 2011 at 11:33:27PM -0400: (Sorry if this isn't the proper list for this discussion. If not, please point me in the right direction.) Since your enquiry is not backed up by a patch proposing specific changes to the OpenBSD operating system, this

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) and OpenBSD

2011-05-10 Thread Amit Kulkarni
system32 - 64 bit dll + apps sysWOW - 32 bit dll + apps How's that for backwards compatibility. That's utterly ridiculous. The guy responsible for such things should be fired :)

Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) and OpenBSD

2011-05-09 Thread Jeff Licquia
(Sorry if this isn't the proper list for this discussion. If not, please point me in the right direction.) The Linux Foundation's LSB workgroup has taken over maintenance of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, and is working on a number of updates needed since its last release in 2004.

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) and OpenBSD

2011-05-09 Thread Kamo Hiroyasu
. If the explanation is available and acceptable, we can accept FHS. Otherwise, we neet not consider FHS. Kamo Hiroyasu [Kamo is the family name and Hiroyasu the given name.] From: Jeff Licquia j...@licquia.org Subject: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) and OpenBSD Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 23:33:27 -0400

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) and OpenBSD

2011-05-09 Thread Jeff Licquia
On 05/10/2011 12:28 AM, Kamo Hiroyasu wrote: I do not understand the benefits of FHS for Unixen other than Linux. Most Unixen, including OpenBSD, are older than FHS and have their own historical constraints. What do we obtain except for switching costs if we accept FHS? It is not we but FHS

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) and OpenBSD

2011-05-09 Thread Andrew Fresh
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 01:21:15AM -0400, Jeff Licquia wrote: The standard itself claims to apply to any UNIX-like system, and to not be Linux-specific; I'm wanting to find out if that's true. Perhaps then you would be interested in item 14 of the OpenBSD porting checklist: