Subject: Re: linking and unlinking
To: Ask Dr. Stupid <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/16/1999 10:58:07
greywolf@starwolf.com (Ask Dr. Stupid) writes:
> Nathan J. Williams sez:
> /*
>  * 	All of /sbin and /bin in NetBSD is staticly linked, so
>  * fiddling with ld.so or the location of libraries won't break them -
>  * and that covers quite a range of basic tools, including ln.
> 
> Heh.  SunOS was stupid enough to rely on /dev/zero for creating blank
> pages for ld.so and then making /etc/mknod dynamically linked.  What
> genius thought of THAT one?

On Solaris, even init is now dynamically linked.

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