Re: Use of /private
Re: Use of /private
- Subject: Re: Use of /private
- From: Kevin Van Vechten <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:57:05 -0700
Somewhat the opposite. Use of /private originated in NeXTSTEP and has been present in every version of Mac OS X.
(I believe it was intended to partition modifiable system data from the root filesystem so that the root filesystem could be a read-only NFS mount.)
Kevin
On Mar 14, 2011, at 9:51 AM, Todd Heberlein wrote:
> In Snow Leopard's audit trails I see a lot of accesses to paths that begin with "private", like "/private/etc/security" instead of just "/etc/security". I see that "/etc", "/tmp", and "/var" are all symbolic links to their equivalents inside "/private".
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> Is there some new behavior to the system because of the use of the "/private" directory?
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