On Nov 16, 2003, at 12:10 AM, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
I just committed a patch to change /bin and /sbin from statically to dynamically linked. If you don't like the idea of using a dynamically linked /bin and /sbin, now is the time to define NO_DYNAMICROOT in your make.conf.
The reasons for doing so have been hashed over lots of times. But the short of it:
1) Much smaller /bin and /sbin. On i386, /bin and /sbin are 33 MB static.
Dynamically linked, they are only 4 MB.
2) Proper support for NSS. This will finally allow you to use NSS modules
and get things like usernames in ls -l working for modules that are
dynamically loaded.
-gordon
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?
Regards,
Robert M. Zigweid
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