On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

> 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).

Read: support for other languages than english. In the future it might
also mean support for other authentication schemes (read pam).

	Johnny

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