[Toybox] off-topic: /sbin --- "static" or "system"

[Rob Landley]

On 05/31/2018 12:36 PM, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 05/30/2018 09:39 PM, enh wrote:
>> do you have a canonical reference to the first unix with an /sbin?
...
> I should just ask Doug McIlroy. I think he's still a professor at Dartmouth?

I asked:

> Do you remember where /sbin came from, and whether it stood for "static" or
> "system"?
> 
> The question came up recently
> (http://lists.landley.net/pipermail/toybox-landley.net/2018-May/009499.html) and
> I couldn't find an answer
> (http://lists.landley.net/pipermail/toybox-landley.net/2018-May/009500.html).
> 
> (Seems to have happened somewhere in the early 80's?)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rob


And he replied:

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: Where did "/sbin" first show up?
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 17:22:47 -0400
From: Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu>
To: rob at landley.net

T\I have always believed it was a Berkeley device for keeping
code of different provennces separate. You should not put
grfeat crfedence in this vague recollection.

Doug
dh