On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 10:20:00AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 09:12:30PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > neither tool is set*id, > > and mkfs/fsck generally live in /sbin. i guess if you're non-root and have > > /sbin/mkfs hardcoded in a script, then dropping FS_SEARCH_PATH might break > > existing code. > > for systemd based distors the path should be also modified, we have > all in /usr and /sbin and /bin are symlinks only. (1) mkfs/fsck can be used on files that can be loopback mounted; I've used mkfs.*fs directly, but it may be desireable to support using mkfs -t as a user for creating filesystems on regular files. (2) the /usr merge may be prevalent on RPM-based distros, but Debian does not use it; I would assume that if they decided to support it, there would be 2 releases before you could require it. Additionally, the /sbin and /bin symlinks are there precisely because the LSB requires certain commands to be in /bin and /sbin so that binaries and scripts can rely on the paths. Ignoring this will cause needless incompatability. Thanks, Isaac Dunham -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
