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From: stailey@iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov (Ken Stailey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: "Official" directory tree
Summary: lib sources preference
Keywords: housekeeping
Message-ID: <527@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Date: 31 Oct 89 03:13:16 GMT
References: <4381@ast.cs.vu.nl>
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Reply-To: stailey@iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov (Ken Stailey)
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center Climate and Radiation Branch
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In article <4381@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>Here is the proposed "official" MINIX file system layout as of 1.4b.
>	/usr/src/lib            library sources
>	    /usr/src/lib/IBM_PC	IBM specific sources (assembler)
>	    /usr/src/lib/M68000	Motorola 68000 sources (assembler)

I find hugh directories unmanagable.  I broke apart /usr/src/lib
in the version 7 fashion:
	/usr/src/libc/stdio	stdio, printf et. al.
	/usr/src/libc/sys	system call interface routines read(), fork()
	/usr/src/libc/crt	c runtime support _xxx.s
	/usr/src/libc/gen	malloc(), regexp(), strcpy()

I was pleased with the balanced load that this approach provided.

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