buildworld, installworld, world: etymology
Graham Perrin
grahamperrin at gmail.com
Fri Jan 15 08:19:24 UTC 2021
On 14/01/2021 05:15, Warner Losh wrote:
> Re: How does /usr/bin/uname work in plain english?
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 10:13 PM Graham Perrin <grahamperrin at gmail.com
> <mailto:grahamperrin at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
> … the installworld part of a FreeBSD-CURRENT
> system update routine?
>
> (Am I confused?)
>
>
> He has a newer kernel than userland... however that came to be...
>
> Warner
Asked a few years ago
<https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/base-system-world-userland.34735/>
but there was not exactly an answer.
Why, instead of 'builduserland' or 'builduserspace', do we have
'buildworld'?
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_space#USERLAND>
Was it maybe that the word is shorter?
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