[6383] in SIPB bug reports
Re: new sipb locker replicated, renamed, put into production
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jun 24 11:53:44 1997
To: chad brown <yandros@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Jun 1997 04:17:23 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 11:23:07 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> The sipb.src volume is mounted in the top level. The other volumes
> are mounted in the `machtype' directory for easy access.
I've been considering proposing a change to the locker model to
introduce platform/${HOSTTYPE}/bin as a valid binary directory ("add"
and "athdir" would look for it if they couldn't find
arch/${ATHENA_SYS}/bin), the justification being that most lockers
wouldn't have to change for an OS upgrade.
I've been using the name "platform" in the 8.1 Athena sources.
Consistency would be good here. (However, since the Athena sources
aren't user-visible, if there's an actual argument for "machtype"
being a better name than "platform," I'm willing to listen to it.)
