Integrate fping into Solaris [PSARC/2008/160 FastTrack timeout 03/05/2008]

[James Carlson]

Cyril Plisko writes:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:28 PM, James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> wrote:
> >  It has nothing to do with privilege or risk.  The only question to
> >  answer here (for this issue) is whether fping is useful for ordinary
> >  users.  If it's not, then /usr/sbin would be the right answer.
> >
> 
> What criteria are used to determine whether a particular utility
> is useful for ordinary user ?

Well, for instance, there's not much that an ordinary user ought to be
doing with zonecfg or devfsadm.

> I consider myself an ordinary user and I cannot imaging working
> w/o /usr/sbin in my path - I must be missing something obvious here...

If what you're saying is that we sometimes get the choice wrong, then
I agree.  If you're saying that the choice can be pretty unclear in
some instances, I'd also agree.  If you're saying that the choice is
probably a bogus issue and folding it all in /usr/bin would be simpler
answer for the long term, I'd probably agree with that as well.

However, the previous poster was asserting that there's no precedent
here, or at least that the ARC needs to set precedent, and that's
incorrect.  There's clear precedent -- whether we choose to follow it
correctly or not.

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