Subject: Re: why /bin and /sbin static
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/18/2001 23:59:23
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 01:21:13PM +0100, wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:
> > Subject: Re: why /bin and /sbin static
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 12:59:26PM +0100, wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:
> > > i know but wouldn't be good to put libc and ld-elf in /lib and do links in
> > > /usr/lib/ to this two files?
> >
> > No, please not. I've got too many problems on Linux or SunOS because of this:
> > not enouth static commands to recover when dynamic linking is f*cked up.
>
> ????
>
> it could be f*cked up only when this 2 files would be missing.
If you've never seen this happen, I can only guess that you have not
administered very many Unix machines, nor for very long.
--
Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com
And now he couldn't remember when this passion had flown, leaving him so
foolish and bewildered and astray: can any man?
William Styron