Subject: Re: /rescue
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Reinier Jonker <rjgjonker@xs4all.nl>
List: current-users
Date: 11/03/2002 18:05:32
On zondag, november 3, 2002, at 05:54 PM, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 01:40:44PM +0100, Reinier Jonker wrote:
>
>> Recently, /rescue was added due to the usage of dynamically linked
>> executables in /bin and /sbin. I noticed the (statically linked)
>> programs in /rescue are a bit faster than those in /bin and /sbin. Is
>> there a good reason not to use those? Prepending /rescue to PATH
>> appears to work fine.
>
> Many of the programs in /rescue lack features of their counterparts in
> /bin and /sbin (things are left out of them in order to make them 
> smaller).

Could you give a few examples of such features?

-- 
Reinier Jonker