Re: Possible slight speedup to non-interactive /bin/sh startup

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 07:36:03PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> One assumes that a (much smaller) staticly linked /bin/sh would be
> slightly faster still - but doing that isn't really what I think we
> should be doing (that option is open to anyone who wants it by
> just building a static root filesys) as it loses the ability to
> get libc bug fixes by just updating libc.so, and also would consume
> a little more overall ram as the libc in sh wouldn't be shared
> with anything else.

More importantly, static /bin/sh breaks both LD_PRELOAD and NSS.

Joerg