Steve Gonczi wrote: > Here is another, interesting wrinkle: > > Looking at /usr/bin and /usr/sbin, I notice that a whole bunch of seemingly > unrelated > utilities appear to be just hard links to a shared file. ( ls -il reveals a > shared > inode number, same size, and the same link count to groups of them).
Lots are hardlinks to /usr/lib/isaexec For why see the isaexec man page. > I am guessing that some groups of these utilities go through common front end > code, > that then dispatches to the correct bits based on argv0. Could someone > confirm this? Some do that but most of them will be the correct "bitness" versions ie 32 vs 64 bit. > This would explain why recompiling ztest and zdb and copying the new bits > into /usr/bin > and /usr/sbin respectively resulted in a whole bunch of my utilities > "becoming zdb". zdb is in fact an isaexec link. -- Darren J Moffat
