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.

Read the (long) discussion about this change.
Basically /bin and /sbin were switched to dynamic linking so that these
programs can use dlopen() (to e.g. load authentification module, or
locale support). As long as you don't need these tools to dlopen() modules,
you can use the tools in /rescue instead.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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