On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Nov 19), Richard Coleman said: > > I don't really care whether everything is statically or dynamically > > linked. With the fast machines and huge disks these days, bloat is not > > much of an issue. But nss and pam need to work correctly. If the folks > > that are against dynamic linking have an alternate method to make this > > work, I'm all for it. But it needs to be more than theory. We need code. > > > > To be honest, I've never understood the (seemingly irrational) > > resistance against this change. Solaris made this change 10 years ago. > > Not completely: > > $ uname -a > SunOS pd1 5.9 Generic_112233-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise > $ file /bin/sh > /sbin/sh: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, statically linked, stripped > $ file /sbin/* | grep statically | cut -d: -f1 | fmt > /sbin/autopush /sbin/fdisk /sbin/jsh /sbin/mount /sbin/sh > /sbin/soconfig /sbin/sync /sbin/umount /sbin/uname Seems to depend a bit on the install, maybe... raven:~> uname -a SunOS raven 5.8 Generic_108528-06 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250 raven:~> file /bin/sh /sbin/sh /bin/sh: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, stripped /sbin/sh: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, statically linked, stripped Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert_at_fledge.watson.org Network Associates LaboratoriesReceived on Wed Nov 19 2003 - 18:54:36 UTC
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