Filebench [PSARC/2007/448 FastTrack timeout 08/16/2007]

[Joseph Kowalski]

Joseph Kowalski wrote:
> James Carlson wrote: 
...
>
>> Perhaps your argument should be that this belongs in /usr/bin or
>> /usr/sbin instead.  I'm unsure that it does.  If you choose to install
>> a benchmarking tool from the repository, do you want it showing up in
>> every user's path?  If so, why?
>>   
> No.  I think this specific case needs to resolve the "to bin or not to 
> bin" question,
> independently of an repository concerns.
Talking to myself (replying to myself), I think this "benchmark" has to
carry the burden of defining the semantics and "expectations" of a
/usr/benchmark (or whatever) directory.

Others seem to have taken up that gautlet, so I thought I'd sit back awhile
and read what they had to say.   (Yes, this is my less-evil twin  :-) )

- jek3