linux-kernel - RE: Linux 5.11-rc1

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Date:   Sun, 3 Jan 2021 17:39:51 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Bernd Petrovitsch' <bernd@...rovitsch.priv.at>,
        "sedat.dilek@...il.com" <sedat.dilek@...il.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
CC:     Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Linux 5.11-rc1

From: Bernd Petrovitsch
> Sent: 02 January 2021 11:05
> 
> On Sat, 2021-01-02 at 10:13 +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> [...]
> > To be honest I wondered why there were no more reports on this.
> 
> Perhaps I'm not the only one who has /sbin and /usr/sbin in the
> $PATH of normal accounts too (and idk what's the default
> behaviour of distributions is - my .bashrc "fixes" the
> $PATH).

Yep, I've pretty much always added sbin to my non-root $PATH
for most of the last 30+ years.
Too much stuff that a 'techie' wants to run non-root is in there.

/usr/bin, /usr/sbin and /usr/lib should have got removed once
disks got large enough that the boot disk (aka /) didn't overflow
required some system files be moved into the 'user' disk.
(The last disks that weren't really big enough were the 600MB ones.
The user's home directories could go into /usr where they belong.

	David

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