Terry Lambert wrote: > "Robert M.Zigweid" wrote: > >>I'll admit to being mostly a lurker here, but isn't the point of /sbin >>to be statically linked. That's what the 's' stands for? >> >>Second question. This seems to imply that /sbin and /bin both have to >>have the same behavior? I have no problem with /bin being dynamically >>linked, but what if I want /bin to be dynamic and /sbin static? > > > Since sbin on System V predated shared libraries on System V, > I think maybe this is a reverse assignment of a meaning to the > 's'. I was taught by an older fart than Terry that the 's' stands for (S)ingle-user, which is reflected even today in the 'boot -s' switch. Since the single-user is usually the Sysadmin, the association with 'system' is inevitable. The association with 'static' is also inevitable when I think of Sysadmins-I-Have-Known ;0)Received on Mon Nov 17 2003 - 09:36:15 UTC
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