[Info-vax] Search for folders

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Sun, 28 Jan 2024 14:38:39 +0100, Fred. Zwarts wrote:

> The reason that SYS0, SYS1, etc was needed is that even systems booting
> with the same OS (in [SYSCOMMON]) need specific data, such as system
> parameters and sometimes specific DCL procedures.
> By having SYS$SYSROOT defined as a search list to SYS$SPECIFIC,
> SYS$COMMON, automatically first the specific data for that node was
> selected and if not present, then the common data. Log files were
> written in the SYS$SPECIFIC part.

VMS never had a clear separation between where you put code, read-only 
data, user/admin-writable config files, and system-writable data, did it? 
E.g. FHS-style /usr/bin for ordinary executables, /usr/sbin for sysadmin-
specific executables, /usr/lib for shareable libraries, /usr/share for 
read-only data (architecture-independent), /etc for modifiable config 
files, /var/log for logfiles, /var/lib for important system-writable data.