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Re:Look up macOS system binaries by pjmlp on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @09:07AM (#44646409)
It isn't as if UNIX is any piece of fine art in filesystems design, especially clear to everyone that has used multiple commercial UNIXes.

People should stop worshiping UNIX System V, while ignoring the chaos that came later with the explosion of UNIX clones.

There is a reason why the UNIX authors then went on designing Plan 9, followed by Inferno, while trying to fix what they percevied as design flaws in UNIX, from filesytem, security model, process execution model, and userspace languages.

Re:Look up macOS system binaries by qalmakka on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @03:11AM (#44656515)
But at least there's a standard that specifies what the directories are supposed to mean: https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html

I won't argue with your point because you are right, I was arguing that at least Linux and the BSDs, despite their stupid hierarchy, at least have standards that assign those directories specific functions. This is in stark opposition with Windows and macOS, where across the years stuff has been chucked basically everywhere (especially on Windows, which is the worst offender in this regard) without a lot of care about what was being put where. On macOS you can find binaries inside frameworks, stuff in /usr/bin, stuff in /sbin, stuff under System, ... and for quite a long time there really wasn't any apparent logic behind it except that it was the most convenient place to put it, similarly on Windows where some 64-bit programs chuck stuff in the 32-bit program application directory just because

Re:Look up macOS system binaries by pjmlp on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @03:16AM (#44656549)
Those "standards" are followed upon various Linux distributions with some degree of flexibility in what they actually mean.