Subject: Re: bin/1715 (login(1) should be statically linked)
To: None <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
List: current-users
Date: 05/14/1996 23:46:52
>My first thought was that if your shared libs are losing on login,
>there's a good chance they're losing on something else as well and
>theoretically your machine should never make it to multi-user mode, but
>that only occurs if the shared libs disappear BEFORE you've gone
>multi-user -- if you lose your shared libs DURING multi- user mode,
>then, yes, you have a problem in that there is now no way to log in to
>attempt to fix things, even at the console.

Of course, since getty is dyanmically linked as well, you won't even be able
to get to login even if login was statically linked :-)

--Ken