From: Thomas Piekarski <t.piekarski@deloquencia.de>
To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, glperkins@lit.edu
Subject: [PATCH] hier.7: Updating from FHS 2.3 to 3.0
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 20:07:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33544f6a-5983-ed08-b2f1-a7a348c411f6@deloquencia.de> (raw)
Adding description of new directories (/run, /usr/libexec,
/usr/share/color,/usr/share/ppd, /var/lib/color), stating
/usr/X11R6 as obsolete and updating URL to and version of
FHS.
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206693
Reported-by: Gary Perkins <glperkins@lit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Piekarski <t.piekarski@deloquencia.de>
---
man7/hier.7 | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man7/hier.7 b/man7/hier.7
index dab9483d7..03fe61c71 100644
--- a/man7/hier.7
+++ b/man7/hier.7
@@ -161,6 +161,12 @@ This pseudo-filesystem is described in more detail in
.I /root
This directory is usually the home directory for the root user (optional).
.TP
+.I /run
+This directory contains information which describes the system since it
was booted.
+Once this purpose was served by
+.IR /var/run
+and programs may continue to use it.
+.TP
.I /sbin
Like
.IR /bin ,
@@ -186,7 +192,7 @@ It should hold only shareable, read-only data, so
that it can be mounted
by various machines running Linux.
.TP
.I /usr/X11R6
-The X\-Window system, version 11 release 6 (optional).
+The X\-Window system, version 11 release 6 (obsolete since FHS 3.0).
.TP
.I /usr/X11R6/bin
Binaries which belong to the X\-Window system; often, there is a
@@ -296,6 +302,10 @@ which usually are not invoked directly.
More complicated programs may
have whole subdirectories there.
.TP
+.I /usr/libexec
+Directory contains binaries for internal use only and they are not meant
+to be executed directly by users shell or scripts.
+.TP
.I /usr/lib<qual>
These directories are variants of
.I /usr/lib
@@ -385,6 +395,10 @@ or
or
.IR /usr/man .
.TP
+.I /usr/share/color
+Contains color management information, like International Color
Consortium (ICC)
+Color profiles (optional).
+.TP
.I /usr/share/dict
Contains the word lists used by spell checkers (optional).
.TP
@@ -421,6 +435,9 @@ same OS.
.I /usr/share/nls
The message catalogs for native language support go here (optional).
.TP
+.I /usr/share/ppd
+Postscript Printer Definition (PPD) files (optional).
+.TP
.I /usr/share/sgml
Files for SGML (optional).
.TP
@@ -523,6 +540,9 @@ Variable game data (optional).
.I /var/lib
Variable state information for programs.
.TP
+.I /var/lib/color
+Variable files containing color management information (optional).
+.TP
.I /var/lib/hwclock
State directory for hwclock (optional).
.TP
@@ -635,11 +655,11 @@ this directory holds temporary files stored for an
unspecified duration.
Database files for NIS,
formerly known as the Sun Yellow Pages (YP).
.SH CONFORMING TO
-The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, Version 2.3
-.UR http://www.pathname.com\:/fhs/
+The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), Version 3.0, published March
19, 2015
+.UR https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/fhs.shtml
.UE .
.SH BUGS
-This list is not exhaustive; different systems may be configured
+This list is not exhaustive; different distributions and systems may be
configured
differently.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR find (1),
--
2.20.1
next reply other threads:[~2020-05-18 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-18 18:07 Thomas Piekarski [this message]
2020-05-19 9:50 ` [PATCH] hier.7: Updating from FHS 2.3 to 3.0 Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-05-19 12:24 ` Thomas Piekarski
2020-05-19 12:40 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-05-19 12:53 ` Thomas Piekarski
2020-05-19 12:55 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-05-19 15:34 ` [PATCH-v2] " Thomas Piekarski
2020-05-19 19:51 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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