hier.7: Updating from FHS 2.3 to 3.0

Adding description of new directories (/run, /usr/libexec,
/usr/share/color,/usr/share/ppd, /var/lib/color), stating
/usr/X11R6 as removed and updating URL to and version of FHS.

See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206693

Reported-by: Gary Perkins <glperkins@lit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Piekarski <t.piekarski@deloquencia.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

diff --git a/man7/hier.7 b/man7/hier.7
index dab9483d7859e585cdc76cd542e270d9d742636f..44c3139f5c531b7bc4547d91bcb4870b0bb89bb9 100644 (file)
--- a/man7/hier.7
+++ b/man7/hier.7
@@ -161,6 +161,12 @@ This pseudo-filesystem is described in more detail in
 .I /root
 This directory is usually the home directory for the root user (optional).
 .TP
+.I /run
+This directory contains information which describes the system since it was booted.
+Once this purpose was served by
+.IR /var/run
+and programs may continue to use it.
+.TP
 .I /sbin
 Like
 .IR /bin ,
@@ -186,7 +192,8 @@ It should hold only shareable, read-only data, so that it can be mounted
 by various machines running Linux.
 .TP
 .I /usr/X11R6
-The X\-Window system, version 11 release 6 (optional).
+The X\-Window system, version 11 release 6 (present in FHS 2.3, removed
+in FHS 3.0).
 .TP
 .I /usr/X11R6/bin
 Binaries which belong to the X\-Window system; often, there is a
@@ -296,6 +303,10 @@ which usually are not invoked directly.
 More complicated programs may
 have whole subdirectories there.
 .TP
+.I /usr/libexec
+Directory contains binaries for internal use only and they are not meant
+to be executed directly by users shell or scripts.
+.TP
 .I /usr/lib<qual>
 These directories are variants of
 .I /usr/lib
@@ -385,6 +396,10 @@ or
 or
 .IR /usr/man .
 .TP
+.I /usr/share/color
+Contains color management information, like International Color Consortium (ICC)
+Color profiles (optional).
+.TP
 .I /usr/share/dict
 Contains the word lists used by spell checkers (optional).
 .TP
@@ -421,6 +436,9 @@ same OS.
 .I /usr/share/nls
 The message catalogs for native language support go here (optional).
 .TP
+.I /usr/share/ppd
+Postscript Printer Definition (PPD) files (optional).
+.TP
 .I /usr/share/sgml
 Files for SGML (optional).
 .TP
@@ -523,6 +541,9 @@ Variable game data (optional).
 .I /var/lib
 Variable state information for programs.
 .TP
+.I /var/lib/color
+Variable files containing color management information (optional).
+.TP
 .I /var/lib/hwclock
 State directory for hwclock (optional).
 .TP
@@ -635,11 +656,11 @@ this directory holds temporary files stored for an unspecified duration.
 Database files for NIS,
 formerly known as the Sun Yellow Pages (YP).
 .SH CONFORMING TO
-The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, Version 2.3
-.UR http://www.pathname.com\:/fhs/
+The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), Version 3.0, published March 19, 2015
+.UR https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/fhs.shtml
 .UE .
 .SH BUGS
-This list is not exhaustive; different systems may be configured
+This list is not exhaustive; different distributions and systems may be configured
 differently.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR find (1),