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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: [lsb-discuss] lsb-discuss Digest, Vol 120, Issue 1
To: Brian Mayer <blmayer@icloud.com>
Cc: lsb-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org


On Tue, 01 Nov 2016 13:23:21 -0200
Brian Mayer <blmayer@icloud.com> wrote:

> I'm proposing a standard way to define important directories by means of variables, so, instead of having
> echo > /dev/null 2>&1 ;
> we would have
> echo > $DEVDIR/null 2>&1 ;
> This way we don't get errors of file not found. And it will work in any machine, I mean, machines with non standard file hierarchy.

The /dev directory is laid down by the FSSTND, by Unix tradition and is
also part of earlier standards too - so if you don't have /dev in the
right place you aren't LSB compliant.

Alan
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