Moving some items out of src/sbin to src/usr.sbin

[Gordon Tetlow]

On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 12:50:46PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> > To cut down on the size of a dynamically-linked root, I'd like to
> > repo-copy the following utilities from src/sbin to src/usr.sbin:
> > 
> > mount_portalfs
> > mount_nwfs
> > mount_smbfs
> > natd
> > ipnat
> > 
> > Does anyone have any objections?
> 
> All the mount programs should be in the same directory.
> 
> I would actually be tempted to go farther, and to adopt the SVR4
> layout for these types of programs, and the stub programs that
> call them, and put them under /libexec; that probably would not
> fly to well, even though it would mean you could drop in new
> file systems, and the tools would "just know" about them.

They already do. mount -t foo will try execing /sbin/mount_foo
and then /usr/sbin/mount_foo. You'd know that if you read the
source.

> If you do go ahead with your plan, make sure to inform the mount
> program of the additional directory to look in, and (maybe) add
> a "verbose" option, so that it can tell you where it found the
> thing that it was exec'ing in order to do the mount, since if
> the files are sprinkled all over the directory hierarchy like
> pixie-dust, it's going to be difficult to track them down.

The directory search is already there. As for adding the
debugging, that could be done trivially.

-gordon
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