On Thu, 10 May 2012 02:58:17 +0200 Roland Mainz wrote:
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Irek Szczesniak <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> does the busybox ksh link against libshell.so or libshell.a?
> >
> > ast busybox links against libshell.so to conserve space since busybox
> > and ksh are still independent executables. I may have to persuade
> > Roland to merge at least sh/ksh and busybox so libshell can be linked
> > statically into this binary.

> Erm... which means libshell can't be used by other consumers anymore.
> IMO the busybox stuff and /usr/bin/sh should continue to link
> seperately dynamically to libshell. That help at least a bit with the
> risk management, e.g. if someone touches the busybox wrapper
> /usr/bin/sh can't be screwed-up (and reverse).

I think I have the wrong model here
is busybox a monolithic hunk of sw or
another unix platform that will support a.out executables

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