[OpenIndiana-discuss] A rant

[Richard L. Hamilton]

The arrangement of the source tree is quite similar to other System V lineage Unix systems (in the relevant way, starting with SVR3, which had support for multiple filesystems).

It's all down to what you're used to.

Set up locate, or just use "find" to make and save a list of all the files, and then you can find them quickly, until you get used to the layout.

Personally I think anything other than System V lineage is a little evil (give or take BSD), but don't really care, because I've used them all, and even poked around the kernel on them.

Seen source for: v7 for the PDP/11, PC/IX (for the PC XT), an early Xenix, SVR2, SVR3, SVR4, Solaris 8, OpenSolaris, Linux kernel, etc; not too much BSD unless I get curious about something. 

Maybe you just need to get out a little more. :-)


> On Jan 28, 2021, at 22:31, Hung Nguyen Gia via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
> 
> Anyone here seems to be hated Linux too much. Does it because their bad past experience with it or simply because Linux is success and we are loser and the natural law of the loser hate the winner?
> 
> Someone used to said Linux is a cesspool because it's only a kernel and hacked together to create a working system.
> 
> Today I cloned illumos-gate and I see the completely different.
> 
> I think Linux is more organized than Illumos.
> 
> Saying Linux is a hacked together work is hypocrite and indeed slapping back into our own faces.
> 
> We are no different. Illumos is a hacked together work and was an product of an desperate attempt to continue OpenSolaris.
> 
> We are a mess, too.
> 
> Indeed I found we are more like Linux than the BSDs.
> 
> The large part of our userland is GNU anyway.
> 
> Back to the rant: where actually things were put?
> 
> I have did many 'find . -name' commands to try to discover where things were put.
> 
> I want to find the source code of pcfs, aka msdosfs.
> 
> The source files with pcfs as part of their names scattered across the source tree, the same for ufs.
> 
> Which one is the true one to look for?
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> I really hope we could be as 'a mess' as Linux, where things were put organized into linux/fs: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/fs
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> Oh no, headers scattered everywhere. Which headers really needed and what they are actually for?
> 
> It might took ages to find the answer.
> 
> Yet the hypocrites still accused Linux of putting everything into /usr/include. Yes, you, too, the BSDs.
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