Subject: Re: /usr/libexec/ld.elf_so (Was: lfs_cleanerd(8) needs /usr)
To: None <tech-toolchain@netbsd.org, current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Antti Kantee <pooka@cs.hut.fi>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 08/22/2007 13:34:10
On Wed Aug 22 2007 at 14:11:44 +0400, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> Hmm, I've been always wondering, why we bother with
> /usr/libexec/ld.elf_so at all, it's symlink to /libexec anyway.
> 
> Does anyone knows/remembers the rationale?

My guess: / wasn't always dynamic, /libexec didn't exist and old binaries
have /usr/libexec/ld.elf_so as their interpreter.

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Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>                     Of course he runs NetBSD
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