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

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On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:51:01AM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 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.

And UTF-8.