On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 01:40:44PM +0100, Reinier Jonker wrote:

 > Recently, /rescue was added due to the usage of dynamically linked 
 > executables in /bin and /sbin. I noticed the (statically linked) 
 > programs in /rescue are a bit faster than those in /bin and /sbin. Is 
 > there a good reason not to use those? Prepending /rescue to PATH 
 > appears to work fine.

Many of the programs in /rescue lack features of their counterparts in
/bin and /sbin (things are left out of them in order to make them smaller).

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>