[ On Monday, March 19, 2001 at 11:12:22 (+1100), Simon Burge wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: why /bin and /sbin static 
>
> Size is not the only argument for/against a shared /*bin.  Other
> usability issues like dynamic nsswitch and i18n support come into
> it as well.

Such ideas (i.e. dynamic loading in libc) scare the living daylights out
of me.  There's absolutely no way I'll go along with them for even
general uses, and *NEVER* for embedded systems, firewalls, and such!

All such things can be done much better and almost infintitely safer
with small, separate, helper programs.

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