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From:	Achim Gratz <Stromeko AT nexgo DOT de>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: util-linux-2.25.2-2
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Date:	Mon, 23 Mar 2015 23:35:06 +0100
In-Reply-To:	<1427148223.912.37.camel@cygwin.com> (Yaakov Selkowitz's message of "Mon, 23 Mar 2015 17:03:43 -0500")
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Yaakov Selkowitz writes:
> On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 22:26 +0100, Achim Gratz wrote:
>> Yaakov Selkowitz writes:
>> > This update adds /sbin/nologin and moves most of the /usr/sbin
>> > executables to /sbin where they are generally expected to be found.
>> 
>> So Cygwin will grow another mount /sbin -> /usr/sbin to keep things
>> consistent?  Last time I've asked Corinna said she doesn't intend to do
>> that.
>
> Probably not, the reason being it is would be quite difficult to
> implement a new mount without breaking existing setups.

Which you are doing just now, for folks that have learned to look for
these tools in /usr/sbin.  There is (or at least should not be) anything
in /sbin on Cygwin, so keeping things in /usr/sbin and either symlinking
or mounting /sbin onto /usr/sbin would let you use scripts that expect
something in /sbin.

Modern Linux (with systemd) has most if not all of /sbin symlinked into
/usr/sbin (where the real action is).  I would prefer if these things
are kept in /usr/sbin for Cygwin (old expectations notwithstanding).
There are few genuine reasons to put things into /sbin specifically and
none of them apply to Cygwin (since it doesn't boot itself).


Regards,
Achim.
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