[67] in DCNS Development
Re: Filesystem Reorganization for release 7.3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Fri Jul 12 04:21:34 1991
To: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
Cc: developers@MIT.EDU, release-73@MIT.EDU, acmg@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 91 04:20:07 EDT
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
>> 3. In the cases where we replace a vendor binary by putting something
>> with the same name in /usr/athena/bin so that they get it instead of
>> the one in /bin, we will also put in a symlink from [program].aix to
>> the vendor version (or *.ucb, *.aux, *.ult, etc). In this way, users
>> can chose to use the vendor version if they wish, while not changing
>> their path to prefer the vendor version for all programs.
Do you plan on doing something about programs which won't work when
you rename them, such as putting the real binary as foo.ucb.real and
making foo.ucb just exec it with the right argv? /usr/ucb/rlogin.ucb
on the decmips comes immediately to mind, for instance. (This
instance may be fixed in ultrix 4.x, I don't know.)
Marc
